Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service

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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service

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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 — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay off the radar of law enforcement by ensuring that their botnet was never pointed at KrebsOnSecur...

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ATTACK TYPES

Brute Force

DDoS

DDoS Attack

IoT Compromise

COUNTRIES

Brazil

China

Ireland

Japan

United States

VULNERABILITIES

Brute Force

DDoS

Denial of Service

COMPANIES

Google

Twitter

PLATFORMS

Internet of Things

IoT

IoT Devices

RANSOMWARE

District

First

Hacked

Judge

Light

MALWARE

Aisuru

FBot

RapperBot

STOP

rock

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001

T1070.004

T1071

T1071.001

T1071.002

AGENCIES

Department of Justice

INDUSTRIES

Cybersecurity

Technology

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