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Ethan Foltz was charged by federal prosecutors in Alaska for carrying out large-scale cyberattacks on U.S. government ...
Prosecutors said the network created by 22-year-old Ethan Foltz is "one of the most sophisticated and powerful DDoS-for-hire ...
Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet launched "large-scale cyber attacks." ...
Foltz and his co-conspirators have been accused of monetizing RapperBot by providing paying customers access to a powerful ...
Ethan Foltz allegedly operated Rapper Bot,used in over 370,000 cyberattacks including one against Elon Musk’s X platform in ...
The US Department of Justice has announced the takedown of the RapperBot botnet and charges against its American ...
The Rapper Bot network knocked out Elon Musk’s X social-media site earlier this year, cybersecurity researchers say.
An Oregon man was charged in a federal complaint on Tuesday for allegedly leading large-scale cyberattacks across dozens of countries.
An Oregon man has been charged on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks since 2021.
The control panel for the Rapper Bot botnet greets users with the message “Welcome to the Ball Pit, Now with refrigerator ...
One of the most high-profile victims was X Inc. (formerly Twitter), which was targeted by Rapper Bot on March 10. The attack caused intermittent outages across the social network, with a ...
A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — ...