The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 22-year-old man from Oregon for operating "RapperBot," a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet responsible for over 370,000 attacks across 80 countries. The botnet, powered by approximately 95,000 compromised devices, was capable of generating traffic at 6 terabits per second, enough to disrupt major online platforms. Authorities described RapperBot as one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever observed. The botnet notably targeted the Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN) in at least three attacks between April and August 2025. U.S. government agencies have successfully taken control of the botnet and halted its operations. The indictment of the alleged American administrator marks a significant step in dismantling one of the world's largest DDoS-for-hire operations.