Hacker who was a problem for 80 countries arrested, did ‘dangerous’ work by putting virus in 1 lakh devices
With the advent of technology, many types of crimes have started spreading. Cyber frauds are happening with people every day. Cyber attacks are happening on the sites of governments and big business companies. For the last 4-5 months, cyber attacks have been made on some people of 80 countries of the world using ‘Rapper Bot’. It sounds like there would be a whole gang behind this attack, but there is only one person who carried out this act. He has now been arrested. Experts are also surprised to know the method of cyber attack of this person.
Created the most powerful and dangerous botnet
According to Tech Radar, a 22-year-old boy has been arrested in Alaska, America. His name is Ethan Foltz. He is a resident of Oregon. It is alleged that he created a dangerous DDoS i.e. Distributed Denial of Service botnet named ‘Rapper Bot’. He ran it and later also rented it out. This botnet is one of the most powerful and dangerous botnets in the world. The Department of Justice said that Ethan was arrested after raiding his house and Rapper Bot was confiscated and shut down.
This is how he used to carry out cyber attacks
In simple language, you can also call Rapper Bot a kind of ‘malware’. This malware engulfed about 1 lakh devices like digital video recorders and Wi-Fi routers. Ethan created a dangerous network with these devices. It was used for DDoS attacks. In a DDoS attack, so much traffic is sent to a website or server that it is unable to handle it and comes to a standstill.
3 lakh 70 thousand cyber attacks were carried out
Ethan did not only use the botnet he created himself, but also rented it to other cyber criminals. They used it to carry out cyber attacks. From April 2025 till now, Rapper Bot has been used on more than 18,000 people in 80 countries. These people have been subjected to 3 lakh 70 thousand cyber attacks. The targets of these attacks were government agencies, social media platforms and US tech companies. The power of these attacks was so much that in some cases it reached 6 terabytes per second. When there is so much power, any system can be easily brought to a standstill.
