A city council has suffered repeated attacks by Russian state-funded cyber hackers in the last two years, it has revealed.

Kasada’s Q2 2025 Threat Report breaks down the top bot attack trends: from AI scraping bots hammering infrastructure, to scalper bots flipping hype-driven inventory, to stolen travel accounts surging ...

Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet launched "large-scale cyber attacks." Now, an Oregon man—Ethan Foltz, 22—has been accused of being behind the ...

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 ...

API attacks reached a record high in the first half of 2025, with more than 40,000 incidents recorded. Cybercriminals are ...

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — ...

The industry association Bitkom and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution warn of cyberattacks. The damage is in the hundreds of billions.