Prosecutors charge man who allegedly used botnet to take down X this spring
An Oregon man, Ethan Foltz, has been charged for allegedly operating a botnet called Rapper Bot, also known as Eleven Eleven Botnet and CowBot, which was used to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on over 18,000 unique victims in more than 80 countries since 2021. The complaint claims that the botnet has carried out more than 370,000 attacks, making it one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever. One of the alleged victims was the social network X, which was taken down by a DDoS attack in March. The owner of X, Elon Musk, made unsubstantiated claims about the attack being perpetrated by a "large, coordinated group and/or a country" and stemming from IP addresses in Ukraine, although security researchers said it was possible the platform had left servers unsecured.
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