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Federal prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a vast network of hacked devices that has been blamed for knocking Elon Musk’s X social-media site offline earlier this year.

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 ...

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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 Rapper ...

OREGON, USA — An Oregon man has been charged with developing and administrating a massive botnet that conducted large-scale cyberattacks against victims in more than 80 countries since 2021, including ...

A prolific initial access broker tracked as TA584 has been observed using the Tsundere Bot alongside XWorm remote access ...

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 — ...

Worries are that agentic AI bot swarms could overwhelm society. I focus on AI bots could undercut mental health. Democracy is ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperva, Inc., (@Imperva) the comprehensive digital security leader on a mission to help organizations protect their data and all paths to it, releases the 2022 ...