Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay off the radar of law enforcement by ensuring that their botnet was never pointed at KrebsOnSecurity.

'Dark Storm Team" Takes Responsibility for 4 Major Outages on MondayRepeated outages Monday on social media platform X - formerly Twitter - are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet. The social media platform experienced four significant outages.