Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

Source: Krebs on Security

Overview

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf—who goes by the handle “Dort”—has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS), doxing and email‑flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.