AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp

PLUS The US Department of Justice has thanked Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, Flashpoint, Google, PayPal, and Unit 221B for their assistance in an investigation that last week led to charges against an alleged operator of the Rapper Bot denial-of-service network. Oregon resident Ethan Foltz, 22, was …

[badger31]

*Gulp*

"Authorities raided his home on August 6 and allegedly seized the computers used to run the botnet."

So now the "authorities" run the 6TB/s botnet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: *Gulp*

It's a "capability" now kept in the National Strageic Reserve.

[Taliesinawen]

What does Rapper Bot run on ?

“Also known as CowBot or Eleven Eleven Botnet, Rapper Bot primarily pursued Internet of Things (IoT) computers and devices, which are embedded in equipment like iPads, appliances, digital recorders and WiFi routers ..”

“This is an extremely challenging threat space to address and effectively disrupt”

[ecarlseen]

Re: What does Rapper Bot run on ?

All of those IoT devices embedded in iPads!

“Prior to joining Scoop News Group, Brandi produced a long-form documentary and worked as a journalist at Nextgov, Snapchat and NBC Network.” - not sure which of these is the least impressive.

[JWLong]

Machinist Mate

Why does a MM have access to weapon systems manuals.

MM's operate the engineering propulsion plant. Nothing close to weapons or their equipment comes under the duties of MM's.

[Blazde]

Re: Machinist Mate

The chunky weapons systems on board ships don't maintain and repair themselves. Who do you think does do it?

[David Hicklin]

quantum computers

Up there with Fusion power for being available in the next 20 years ...for as long as you want to remember.

Yeah I know there are some around and they are throwing lots of money at them but just like fusion power they don't do much yet.

[ecarlseen]

Microsoft may be safe from quantum attacks (big maybe), but

they'll still be vulnerable to an endless number of exploitable bugs, so even in theory the best case is it's like putting a better lock on a safe made out of paper mâché.

[ElRegioLPL]

“ It's also worrying, since earlier this month Perplexity offered $34.5 billion to Google for Chrome, raising the possibility that the world's most popular browser could end up in the hands of an outfit with a history of bad browser security.”

Hahahaha

Very good