The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets enabled cybercriminals to initiate thousands of attacks. A crackdown targeting large-scale botnets continues amid growing challenges.

Chris Formosa -- Senior Lead Information Security Engineer for Black Lotus Labs at Lumen Technologies

The botnet, which compromised routers and IoT devices in 163 countries, claimed about 369,000 victims and $5.8 million from its cybercriminal customers, officials said.

The botnet took an unusual path by abusing residential proxy networks, allowing it to control an untapped collection of unofficial Android TV devices.

Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and the Elysium botnet were targeted in the takedowns.