- Ethan Foltz, 22, was recently arrested
- It is suspected that it is built and rented, an enorm
- From the arrest, there were no reports of the new activity of the Raperos Bot
A 22 -year -old Alaska has been arrested under the suspicion of building, maintaining and renting “one of the most sophisticated and powerful botnets of rent currently existing”, the infamous “Bot rapper”.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that police officers attacked Ethan Foltz de Eugene, Oregon, who was apparently arrested, while rapper Bot was seized and finished.
The Department of Justice also said that the raid is a success, since “private sector partners have not reported any Rapape Bot attacks since then.”
10 years in prison
Now it is suspected that Foltz develops and distributes a unique piece of malware that infected digital video recorders (DVR) and Wi -Fi routers.
This malware supposedly gave him control over almost 100,000 devices, which he used to build a distributed service denial botnet (DDOS).
Together with their alleged co-conspirators (which were not named in the announcement and were probably not arrested), he sold access to that botnet, which several cybercriminals used to assemble ddos attacks against different entities, including government agencies, social networks platforms and American technology companies.
According to the criminal complaint, just between April 2025 and today, rapper Bot was used in 370,000 attacks against 18,000 victims, located in 80 countries around the world.
The US prosecutor Michael J. Heyman of the Alaska district described rapper Bot as “one of the most powerful ddos botnets that has ever existed.” The attacks measured up to three terabits per second, and in some cases they even exceeded the six terabits per second.
The announcement also said that a single DDos of 30 seconds could cost a business of up to $ 10,000 in different costs, from lost income, unhappy customers, to costs of bandwidth use or the necessary resources to respond to the attacks.
Foltz is accused of a charge of helping and installing computer intrusions, and if it is declared guilty, it could spend the next 10 years in prison.
