--- title: Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P | daily.dev description: 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,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kimwolf-botnet-swamps-anonymity-network-i2p-r8eicehnl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P | daily.dev og:description: 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,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kimwolf-botnet-swamps-anonymity-network-i2p-r8eicehnl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/r8eICEHnL.png og:image:alt: Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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