Hacker behind “Rapper Bot” DDoS-for-hire Botnet which carried out over 370,000 attacks arrested

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• 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 Bot activity

A 22-year-old Alaskan man has been arrested under the suspicion of building, maintaining, and renting “one of the most sophisticated and powerful DDoS-for-hire botnets currently in existence” - the infamous “Rapper Bot”.