A man in Oregon has been charged with operating a powerful botnet, known as the "Rapper Bot," that carried out cyberattacks against thousands of victims. High-profile targets, according to the federal prosecutors in Alaska,

The control panel for the Rapper Bot botnet greets users with the message “Welcome to the Ball Pit, Now with refrigerator support,” an apparent reference to a handful of IoT-enabled refrigerators that were enslaved in their DDoS botnet.

Prosecutors said the network created by 22-year-old Ethan Foltz is "one of the most sophisticated and powerful DDoS-for-hire Botnets currently in existence."