Blog Security Research Akamai Helps Authorities Disrupt the World’s Largest IoT Botnets The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), working alongside international partners, has disrupted several large and powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets and shut down their related DDoS-for-hire services .  This operation marks a major step toward a safer internet and reflects the coordinated efforts of multiple parties, including Akamai. Operation details In particular, this operation targeted Aisuru and Kimwolf, hyper-volumetric botnets that emerged as a dominant global threat in 2025 and 2026 by leveraging a massive network of an estimated 1 million to 4 million compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices.…