- A 22 -year -old Ethan Fortz was recently arrested
- He is suspected of building and renting, a huge DDOS-For-Hire Botnet called rapper Bot
- Since the arrest, there has been no activity report of the new rapper
A 22 -year -old Alaska man was arrested under the suspicion of building, maintaining and praising “one of the DDOS boots for the most sophisticated and most powerful hiring” – the infamous “Rapper Bot”.
The American Ministry of Justice (DoJ) announced that the law enforcement officers have descended into the house of Ethan Foltz d’ugene, Oregon, which was apparently arrested, while rapper Bot was seized and terminated.
The DoJ also claimed the RAID a success, because “the partners of the private sector have not pointed out any rapper robot attack since”.
10 years in prison
Foutz is now suspected of developing and distributing a unique piece of malware that have infected digital video recorders (DVR) and WiFi routers.
This malicious software would have granted him control of nearly 100,000 aircraft, which he used to build a distributed service botnet (DDOS).
With his alleged co-conspirators (who were not appointed in the announcement and were probably not arrested), he sold access to this botnet, which various cybercriminals had used to mount DDOS attacks against different entities, including government agencies, social media platforms and American technological societies.
According to the criminal complaint, just in April 2025 and today, rapper Bot was used in 370,000 attacks against 18,000 victims, located in 80 countries around the world.
American lawyer Michael J. Heyman for the Alaska district described rapper Bot as “one of the most powerful ddos botnets to have ever existed”. The attacks measured up to three terabits per second and, in some cases, even exceeded six terabits per second.
The announcement also indicated that a single DDOS attack of 30 seconds could cost a company up to $ 10,000 in different costs, loss of income, unhappy customers, the costs of using the bandwidth or the resources necessary to respond to attacks.
Foutz is accused of a charge of help and encourage computer intrusions, and if it is convicted, he could spend the next 10 years in prison.
