{"id":220477,"date":"2025-08-20T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/doj-charges-22-year-old-for-running-rapperbot-botnet-behind-370000-ddos-attacks"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:25:52","slug":"doj-charges-22-year-old-for-running-rapperbot-botnet-behind-370000-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/doj-charges-22-year-old-for-running-rapperbot-botnet-behind-370000-ddos-attacks","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doj-charges-22-year-old-for-running-rapperbot-botnet-behind-370000-ddos-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RapperBot launched 370,000 DDoS attacks on 18,000 victims in 80+ countries since 2021, DOJ seizes botnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RapperBot launched 370,000 DDoS attacks on 18,000 victims in 80+ countries since 2021, DOJ seizes botnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}