Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet launched "large-scale cyber attacks." Now, an Oregon man—Ethan Foltz, 22—has been accused of being behind the powerful botnet. How powerful and destructive was it?

The control panel for the Rapper Bot botnet greets users with the message “Welcome to the Ball Pit, Now with refrigerator support,” an apparent reference to a handful of IoT-enabled refrigerators that were enslaved in their DDoS botnet.

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