Tag: ddos
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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
A 22-year-old man from Oregon has been arrested and charged in connection with the operation of “Rapper Bot,” a significant botnet utilized to facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This service is alleged to have been employed for various malicious activities, including a notable DDoS attack in March 2025 that rendered Twitter/X inaccessible. The Justice Department’s…
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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
A 22-year-old man from Oregon has been arrested and charged in connection with operating “Rapper Bot,” a significant botnet utilized for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Justice Department alleges that this service was employed to target various entities, most notably causing an outage for Twitter/X in March 2025. The suspect, along with an alleged…