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Having lost more hours to reading criminal complaints over the years than I care to remember, I can confidently state that I have never encountered one as entertaining and complete as the one that dropped today, charging a 22 y/o Oregon man with operating "Rapper Bot," a huge IoT botnet blamed for the Twitter/X DDoS attack in March 2025.
As the complaint states in delicious detail, the accused and his alleged co-conspirator discussed at length on Telegram how to stay off the radar of law enforcement. Here's a snippet from the story:
“Both FOLTZ and Slaykings were very dismissive of attention seeking activities, the most extreme of which, in their view, was to launch DDoS attacks against the website of the prominent cyber security journalist Brian Krebs,” Peterson wrote in the criminal complaint.
“You see, they’ll get themselves [expletive],” Slaykings wrote in response to Foltz’s comments about Forky and Aisuru bringing too much heat on themselves.
“Prob cuz [redacted] hit krebs,” Foltz wrote in reply.
“Going against Krebs isn’t a good move,” Slaykings concurred. “It isn’t about being a [expletive] or afraid, you just get a lot of problems for zero money. Childish, but good. Let them die.”
“Ye, it’s good tho, they will die,” Foltz replied.
The government states that just prior to Foltz’s arrest, Rapper Bot had enslaved an estimated 65,000 devices globally. That may sound like a lot, but the complaint notes the defendants weren’t interested in making headlines for building the world’s largest or most powerful botnet.
Quite the contrary: The complaint asserts that the accused took care to maintain their botnet in a “Goldilocks” size — ensuring that “the number of devices afforded powerful attacks while still being manageable to control and, in the hopes of Foltz and his partners, small enough to not be detected.”
The complaint states that several days later, Foltz and Slaykings returned to discussing what that they expected to befall their rival group, with Slaykings stating, “Krebs is very revenge. He won’t stop until they are [expletive] to the bone.”
“Surprised they have any bots left,” Foltz answered.
“Krebs is not the one you want to have on your back. Not because he is scary or something, just because he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]. Proved it with Mirai and many other cases.”
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 -- including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter…
I have always resisted merchandising my...err...brand (ew), but I might just have to have some mugs or t-shirts made with a few of these quotes (someone sent me this and it made me lol)
there is something delicious about reading the court fillings for some miscreants you busted, I can only imagine how much better it is when they know you're a threat to them...
“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”
The feds casually dropped a curious tidbit into their complaint on the accused DDoS-for-hire service guy: Earlier this month, the defendant and his co-conspirator discussed finding what they called a "new" exploit in routers used by Comcast/Xfinity that gave them access to 32,000 new devices overnight. Nobody I've asked who knows about this case said they knew whether this was or is an 0day or not.
I mentioned Odo before and I think that might have elicited perhaps an awkward polite smile. But I'm doubling down. You inspired the same fear and respect in these kids.
What I am interested in is the presence of concern but lack of threat modeling on their part. They seemed relatively concerned with drawing attention (including by gaining your attention) which is always a good move but bought the C2 server in the USA with PayPal under a legal name+gmail obvi a terrible move. Also I wonder if the DoD IP they had was a DoD registered IP block.
Somehow I missed this June 2025 writeup on Rapper Bot from Quianxin.com, which explained that at the time the botnet malware contained a Base64 encoded message that invokes my name! I guess they weren't totally against tossing my name around for publicity after all. Too bad I didn't notice sooner.
"This is rapperbot, rapperbot is in its testing and development stages. Take nothing here seriously. Brian Krebs approves of this project; he is our number one supporter. FUCK DOTA3.TAR.GZ (outlaw) AND FUCK xorddos for using those dumb ass low IQ root kits. (they have no idea what's to come) I love Olivia Rodrigo, soon I will be rich enough to meet her.
Question, Did you guys listen to my music whilst reverse engineering my binary? (youtube.com/watch?v=4fm_ZZn5qa…) I can only imagine the Chinese (NETLAB360) researchers not understanding it at all and trying to decode the meaning behind it.
Anyway, 2tall out! See you guys in the next update, I'll most likely leave another note."
Overview
RapperBot is an active botnet family first publicly disclosed and named by CNCERT in July 2022. FortiGuard Labs traced its activity back to 2021 in their November 2022 report.
After WWII the US cut back its forces - modestly. This freaked out the 'military industrial complex.' How could a Major become a General without a war? How could an aircraft company make money without a war? Arthur Miller certainly showed the exuberance of working for the gubmint making things to kill others. The reduction was short-lived but the common lexicon got the term 'Peace Dividend.'
After Nam we heard the same thing. So far, no Peace Dividend.
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@niavy Voilà le dernier que j'ai reçu. Le premier sonne pratiquement pareil et c'est pas la même personne, c'est ce qui me fait penser que ça a été fait avec l'IA.
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Emory
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •k3ym𖺀
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •tekhedd
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Mark T. Tomczak
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Shufei 🧮
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •hal8999
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Of course they used your last name. Ngl, having a hard time being afraid of a gangster named 'Brian'.
Brian | Krebs
BrianKrebs
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Ian Campbell 🏴
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Heat-sensitive mug.
At room temp, it's blank.
Once the heat is on, you and the quotes come into stark relief.
Ryan Castellucci
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Mark Koek
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Paul Barker
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •LisPi
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Tim Lieder
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Mx. Moriarty 🏳️⚧️
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •how they hear you:
“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”
ghosttie
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •BrianKrebs
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Allan Chow
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •noplasticshower
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Weird Socks
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •But I'm doubling down.
You inspired the same fear and respect in these kids.
Chilly 🛡️
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •A point of pride! tbh well earned dude.
What I am interested in is the presence of concern but lack of threat modeling on their part. They seemed relatively concerned with drawing attention (including by gaining your attention) which is always a good move but bought the C2 server in the USA with PayPal under a legal name+gmail obvi a terrible move. Also I wonder if the DoD IP they had was a DoD registered IP block.
trumpresistance
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Eljorgeabides
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •they think you are the Terminator!
Awesome
Helix
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •BrianKrebs
in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Somehow I missed this June 2025 writeup on Rapper Bot from Quianxin.com, which explained that at the time the botnet malware contained a Base64 encoded message that invokes my name! I guess they weren't totally against tossing my name around for publicity after all. Too bad I didn't notice sooner.
blog.xlab.qianxin.com/rapperbo…
Here's the decoded message:
"This is rapperbot, rapperbot is in its testing and development stages. Take nothing here seriously.
Brian Krebs approves of this project; he is our number one supporter.
FUCK DOTA3.TAR.GZ (outlaw) AND FUCK xorddos for using those dumb ass low IQ root kits. (they have no idea what's to come)
I love Olivia Rodrigo, soon I will be rich enough to meet her.
Question, Did you guys listen to my music whilst reverse engineering my binary? (youtube.com/watch?v=4fm_ZZn5qa…)
I can only imagine the Chinese (NETLAB360) researchers not understanding it at all and trying to decode the meaning behind it.
Anyway, 2tall out!
See you guys in the next update, I'll most likely leave another note."
Botnets Never Die: Analysis of the RapperBot Botnet
Wang Hao (奇安信 X 实验室)