US federal prosecutors have charged a man with running Rapper Bot, a powerful botnet that was rented out to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks around the world. According to court documents, 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, is accused of developing and managing the Rapper Bot botnet, which also went by other names, including “Eleven Eleven Botnet” and “CowBot”. Investigators say Rapper Bot infected internet-connected devices such as digital video recorders and WiFi routers. … More
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