Tag: extortion

  • Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service

    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…