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

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

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

Federal officials dismantled a massive botnet-for-hire operation linked to global cyberattacks and charged its alleged creator.

Authorities charged Ethan Foltz, 22, with one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusions. Police executed a search ...

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

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 — ...

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

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

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.