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

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

Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet launched "large-scale cyber attacks." ...

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

According to the criminal complaint, just between April 2025 and today, Rapper Bot was used in 370,000 attacks against 18,000 ...

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

The US Department of Justice has announced the takedown of the RapperBot botnet and charges against its American ...

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

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

Foltz and his co-conspirators have been accused of monetizing RapperBot by providing paying customers access to a powerful ...

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

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 — ...