A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested He's being suspected of building, and renting, an enormous DDoS-for-hire botnet called Rapper Bot Since the arrest, there were no reports of new ...

Prosecutors charge man who allegedly used botnet to take down X this spring Rapper Bot reportedly conducted more than 370,000 DDoS attacks since April 2025.

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An Oregon man faces federal charges for allegedly running a botnet that reportedly attacked X and conducted 370,000+ cyberattacks globally.

U.S. Attorney Michael J. Heyman for the District of Alaska said: "Rapper Bot was one of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist, but the outstanding investigatory work by DCIS cyber agents ...

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 ...