The Current powered by Kim Komando
Apr 28, 2026 · 11 min · 11 segments
Your smart devices could be someone else's weapon. A global crackdown wiped out four massive botnets linked to 300,000 attacks. Intelligence Analyst Allan Liska explains who's behind it and what it…
Kim KomandoHostspeaker_1HostBecause everybody has a home router, right? And so right there, just as a baseline, you're talking about billions of devices out there, and so many of these devices are vulnerable.
So we saw last year that there was one of the largest DDoS attacks ever that, uh, in, in terms of traffic size, was terabits of traffic that, uh, Cloudflare blocked, and that all comes from these botnets.
When you basically, you have a hive mind of you send a single command from wherever your command and control location is and activate all of these bots to force traffic into one spot, you can generate just unseemly amounts of traffic.
Took down just airplanes, I mean, airlines, and airports, and all other kinds of companies, right?
So, uh, Cloudflare, for, for people that don't know, is a, uh, DDoS protection service.
It, it, it does a lot of different things, but one of the things it does is it, it tries to stop that traffic.
But even something like Cloudflare can be overwhelmed by the size of the traffic, and so many organizations rely on Cloudflare for that level of security that if they get overwhelmed, then those organizations behind them can be overwhelmed as well.
Because everybody has a home router, right? And so right there, just as a baseline, you're talking about billions of devices out there, and so many of these devices are vulnerable.
So we saw last year that there was one of the largest DDoS attacks ever that, uh, in, in terms of traffic size, was terabits of traffic that, uh, Cloudflare blocked, and that all comes from these botnets.
When you basically, you have a hive mind of you send a single command from wherever your command and control location is and activate all of these bots to force traffic into one spot, you can generate just unseemly amounts of traffic.
Took down just airplanes, I mean, airlines, and airports, and all other kinds of companies, right?
So, uh, Cloudflare, for, for people that don't know, is a, uh, DDoS protection service.
It, it, it does a lot of different things, but one of the things it does is it, it tries to stop that traffic.
But even something like Cloudflare can be overwhelmed by the size of the traffic, and so many organizations rely on Cloudflare for that level of security that if they get overwhelmed, then those organizations behind them can be overwhelmed as well.
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You'd Never Know It's Infected
First, why botnets stay completely invisible
Terabit Attacks From Botnets
Then, the staggering scale of attacks
How AI Supercharges Botnets
Next, where automation meets modern tools
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