CastleRAT and CastleLoader, active since March 2025, spread malware via phishing and GitHub repos, enabling data theft.

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the easiest Python packager yet. Every developer knows how hard it is to ...

An Oregon man has been charged in a federal complaint today on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks beginning at least in 2021. Ethan Foltz has been accused of ...

A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested He's being suspected of building, and renting, an enormous DDoS-for-hire botnet called Rapper Bot Since the arrest, there were no reports of new Rapper ...

OREGON, USA — An Oregon man has been charged with developing and administrating a massive botnet that conducted large-scale cyberattacks against victims in more than 80 countries since 2021, including ...

The US Department of Justice has charged 22-year-old Oregon man Ethan Foltz in relation to his alleged involvement in the development and administration of RapperBot, a notorious DDoS-for-hire botnet.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: seksan Mongkhonkhamsao @ Getty Images The US Department of Justice has charged ...

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 — ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a vast network of hacked devices that has been blamed for knocking Elon Musk’s X social-media site offline earlier this year.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced charges against the alleged developer and administrator of the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet. Ethan Foltz, 22, of Eugene, Oregon, allegedly rented ...

The first half of 2025 marked another MAJOR escalation in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity, with new NetScout research documenting more than eight million attacks worldwide in these six ...