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

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced law enforcement agents raided the home of Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, who was ...

Rapper Bot allegedly administered large-scale DDoS-for-hire attacks averaging 2-3 Terabits in size, targeting victims in over ...

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

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

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

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." ...

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 ...

Ethan Foltz, 22, of Eugene allegedly ran "Rapper Bot" that reportedly targeted X and conducted over 370,000 cyberattacks worldwide.

According to the Justice Department, the botnet's firepower typically averaged 2-3 Tbps per attack, with RapperBot's largest attack allegedly exceeding 6 Tbps. A DDoS attack averaging over 2 Tbps per ...

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 — ...