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 — ...

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 ...

Primary driver of DDoS activity remains geopolitical and ideological conflictAI-Driven Bot Attacks Accelerate Worldwide MAHWAH, N.J., ...

Deutsche Bahn suspects Russian hackers behind a major DDoS attack causing IT outages in its app and website, echoing past cyber incidents on German infrastructure.

Bot attacks are one of the most common threats you can expect to deal with as you build your site or service. One exposed attack vector can bring your e-commerc ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

With 2025 winding down, cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today released its annual year in review, detailing a colorful 12 months of surging artificial intelligence-driven traffic, rapid ...

In context: We deal with DDoS attacks every day, from minor outages to targeted disruptions that test even our most resilient servers. Now imagine a threat far beyond that scale – something so ...

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with administering the Rapper Bot DDoS-for-hire botnet, which was allegedly used to launch multi-terabit attacks across 80+ countries. Rapper Bot is alleged ...