An Oregon man is facing federal charges over allegations he orchestrated multiple large-scale cyberattacks over the course of several years, federal authorities announced Tuesday.

Ethan Foltz, 22, allegedly developed the "Rapper Bot" Botnet, a network of devices such as digital video recorders and WiFi routers that have been infected with malware and used to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks — a type of cyberattack aimed at slowing or shutting down websites, servers or other devices by sending large amounts of requests and overloading the system — since at least 2021, said the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Alaska. Prosecutors said the network is "one of the most sophisticated and powerful DDoS-for-hire Botnets currently in existence."

Prosecutors said la

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