A 22-year-old Alaskan man has been arrested under the suspicion of building, maintaining, and renting “one of the most ...

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

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

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 ...

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" DDoS-for-hire botnet.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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