The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced charges against a US national for his alleged role in operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. The man, Ethan Foltz, 22, of Eugene, Oregon, was the alleged administrator of the botnet known as RapperBot, Eleven Eleven Botnet, and CowBot, which abused ensnared IoT devices, mainly DVR devices and Wi-Fi routers, to launch massive DDoS attacks against victims in more than 80 countries. According to the indictment, Foltz and his co-conspirators sold access to the botnet’s capabilities. Between April and August 2025, RapperBot was allegedly used to launch over 370,000 DDoS attacks against 18,000 unique victims. A US government network, US tech companies, and a social media platform were among the targeted organizations,…