2 Minute Drill: How a 22-Year-Old Took Down the World's Largest Botnet with Drex DeFord

UnHack with Drex DeFord · Apr 15, 2026 · 6m

The Kim Wolf botnet was the most powerful ever built — 2 million compromised IoT devices, a record-breaking 31.4 terabit DDoS attack, and it had the FBI, Google, and Cloudflare stumped. Drex breaks down how those cheap, forgotten devices in patient waiting rooms and break rooms became weapons inside hospital networks, and why 25% of Infoblox's enterprise healthcare clients were already compromised. Then comes the wild part: a 22-year-old RIT undergrad named Benjamin cracked the whole operation — while studying for midterms — using Discord, Telegram, and a perfectly timed cat meme. His…