- A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested
- He is suspected of building and renting, a huge ddos-for-hire botnet called rapper bot
- Since the arrest there were no reports of new rapper bot -activity
A 22-year-old Alaskan man has been arrested under the suspicion of building, maintenance and rent “one of the most sophisticated and powerful DDOS-for-rental bots currently found” the notorious “rapper bot”.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced law enforcement agents who attacked Ethan Foltz from Eugene, Oregon, who was apparently arrested while rapper Bot was seized and completed.
DOJ also claimed Raid a success as “Partners in the private sector have not reported any rapper bot attack since”.
10 years in prison
Foltz is now suspected of developing and distributing a unique piece of malware that infected digital video recorders (DVRs) and WiFi routers.
This malware allegedly assigned him control over nearly 100,000 units he used to build a distributed denial of service (DDOS) Botnet.
Together with his alleged co-conspirators (who were not named in the message and probably not arrested), he sold access to the botnet used by various cyber criminals to mount DDOS attacks against various entities, including public agencies, social media platforms and US tech 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.
US lawyer Michael J. Heyman for District of Alaska described rapper Bot as “one of the most powerful DDOS botets that have ever existed.” The attacks measured up to three terabits per year. Second, and in some cases even exceeded six terabits per second.
The message also said that a single 30-second DDOS attack could cost a business up to $ 10,000 in different costs, from lost revenue, dissatisfied customers, to bandwidth costs or the resources needed to respond to attacks.
Foltz is charged with a counting of help and to accommodate computer resurrections, and if convicted, he could spend the next 10 years in prison.
