Federal authorities have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating one of the most powerful cyberattack networks ever documented, capable of crippling major websites, including Elon ...

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 ...

The US Department of Justice has announced the takedown of the RapperBot botnet and charges against its American ...

The control panel for the Rapper Bot botnet greets users with the message “Welcome to the Ball Pit, Now with refrigerator ...

Prosecutors said the network created by 22-year-old Ethan Foltz is "one of the most sophisticated and powerful DDoS-for-hire ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced charges against the alleged developer and administrator of the "Rapper Bot" ...

Alaska federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a wide-reaching and destructive botnet blamed for several years of cyberattacks, including one earlier this year ...

An Oregon man has been charged on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks since 2021.

Ethan Foltz was charged by federal prosecutors in Alaska for carrying out large-scale cyberattacks on U.S. government ...

The Rapper Bot network knocked out Elon Musk’s X social-media site earlier this year, cybersecurity researchers say.

US Attorney Michael J. Heyman for the District of Alaska described Rapper Bot as “one of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ...

A man in Oregon has been charged with operating a powerful botnet, known as the "Rapper Bot," that carried out cyberattacks ...