Efforts to intrude have been aimed at Defense Department-owned or operated IP addresses.
The U.S. Department of Defense Information Network has been subjected to at least three distributed denial-of-service attacks involving the highly powerful Rapper Bot botnet from April to August.
According to DefenseScoop, intrusions have been aimed at Defense Department-owned or operated IP addresses, including those leveraged for public affairs sites and digital information resources, noted an official.
Such a disclosure comes after Rapper Bot was dismantled by U.S. authorities, who have also pressed charges against the botnet's alleged developer and administrator Ethan Foltz. More than 370,000 intrusions have been conducted by Rapper Bot across 80 countries during the same period, with China, Japan, the U.S., Ireland, and Hong Kong being the leading targets.
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