For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network around the same time the Kimwolf botmasters began relying on it to evade takedown attempts against the botnet's control servers.

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The Kimwolf IoT botnet has disrupted the I2P anonymity network for the past week after its operators attempted to join 700,000 infected devices as nodes, overwhelming the network's normal capacity of 15,000-20,000 devices. This Sybil attack prevented legitimate users from connecting while the botnet operators experimented with using I2P as a resilient command-and-control infrastructure to evade takedown attempts. The network is operating at half capacity, though recent internal conflicts among Kimwolf's operators have caused the botnet to lose over 600,000 infected systems.

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P