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Lizard Squad member jailed after offering DDoS‑for‑hire attack service

"Hacker-for-hire" service launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites and phone-bombed its victims.

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Incidents

Lizard Squad is still active and now also acts under another name: BigBotPein

Lizard Squad is a group of hackers that was dedicated to cause damage through DDoS attacks. Throughout their career they came to...

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Incidents

Lizard Squad is alive and continuing activities as BigBotPein: Report

According to researchers, evidence suggests Lizard Squad is alive and well, continuing their malicious activities under the guise of BigBotPein. ZingBox researchers...

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Articles

Co-Founder of Lizard Squad And PoodleCorp Caught For Operating ‘Hacker For Hire’ Services

Zachary Buchta, a 20 year old hacker, who is the co-founder of famous hacking groups called Lizard Squad And Poodlecorp was recently...

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Cyber Crime

Lizard Squad & PoodleCorp Founder Pleads Guilty to DDoS Attacks

Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, a group of DDoS attackers who caused havoc by attacking tech giants, gaming servers, and small businesses back in...

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Cyber Crime

Two Charged for alleged Connections to Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp

The US Justice Department has charged two alleged members of Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp DDoSing group for online crimes. Two 19-year-old men have been charged...

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Cyber Events

Lizard Squad Taking Over CCTV Devices to Conduct DDoS Attacks

Lizard Squad hackers have been conducting Distributed Denial of Service (#DDoS) Attacks on banking and government institutions after compromising CCTV devices worldwide!...

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Data Security

Vigilante Hackers Fight Lizard Squad For Control Of 150,000 Home Routers

Home routers with little to no security are far too common. They’re dangerous from a number of perspectives: as peeping holes for spying on people’s...

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Incidents

FCC fines Cox for falling for Lizard Squad scam, exposing customer data

“Hi, I’m from IT” call yielded access to customer records, lulz; Cox fined $596k. What’s the cost of giving up customers’ information...

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Cyber Events

Lizard Squad Shuts Down British National Crime Agency Site

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) website was taken down by the cyber-attackers using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, apparently...

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Data Security

Lizard Squad cyber-attackers disrupt National Crime Agency website

Cyber-attackers launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) violation on law enforcement agency in apparent revenge for previous arrests. Cyber-attackers have taken down...

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Hacking

Lenovo website hacked, Lizard Squad claims responsibility

Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has been victim to a website hack, with Lizard Squad claiming responsibility.

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Hacking

Lizard Squad hits Malaysia Airlines website

The website for Malaysia Airlines was taken offline, in an attack claimed to be by the Lizard Squad hacking group, according to...

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Cyber Crime

Lizard Squad DDoS‑for‑hire service hacked – users’ details revealed

Lizard Squad failed to encrypt its database of LizardStresser's registered users - storing details of their usernames and passwords in plaintext. A...

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Data Security

There Are over 100 DDoS Botnets Based on Lizard Squad’s LizardStresser

Lizard Squad’s tool becomes very popular thanks to the millions of unsecured IoT devices ready for the taking. Security experts from Arbor...

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Cyber Crime

Stressful Friday for Gamers as Warcraft Servers DDoSed by Lizard Squad

Stressful Friday for Gamers as Blizzard’s Servers Targeted by Infamous Lizard Squad through DDoS DDoS attacks have become so widespread that every...

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Data Security

LizardStresser: Six people arrested in connection with Lizard Squad’s DDoS attack tool

British police have today announced the arrest of six people in connection with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that attempted to bring down...