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

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 ...

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

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

An Oregon man was charged in a federal complaint on Tuesday for allegedly leading large-scale cyberattacks across dozens of ...

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

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

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

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

Ethan Foltz allegedly operated Rapper Bot,used in over 370,000 cyberattacks including one against Elon Musk’s X platform in ...

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

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 ...