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.
“Hacker-for-hire” service launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites and phone-bombed its victims.
Lizard Squad is a group of hackers that was dedicated to cause damage through DDoS attacks. Throughout their career they came to knock down many of the most popular services, although it became popular when they attacked, with previous threat, the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network services. According to the researchers of a cyber security company, Lizard […]
According to researchers, evidence suggests Lizard Squad is alive and well, continuing their malicious activities under the guise of BigBotPein. ZingBox researchers have strong evidence that BigBotPein group is the new name under which the Lizard Squad is discreetly carrying out cybercriminal activities and that Lizard Squad has a close connection with Mirai malware. This information connects Lizard […]
Zachary Buchta, a 20 year old hacker, who is the co-founder of famous hacking groups called Lizard Squad And Poodlecorp was recently in news for all the wrong reasons. A few days back, he was caught by the Chicago police for a number of crimes he committed along with this fellow members. As per The […]
Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, a group of DDoS attackers who caused havoc by attacking tech giants, gaming servers, and small businesses back in 2014. Apparently, the people who created Lizard Squad were also behind creating PoodleCorp group who took things to a whole new level by hacking YouTube accounts of popular celebrities and conducting DDoS against gaming […]
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 by the United States Department of Justice for conducting credit card theft and operating the powerful DDoS services to make websites go offline, namely Booter or Stresser, and compromising protected computers. The two males […]
Lizard Squad hackers have been conducting Distributed Denial of Service (#DDoS) Attacks on banking and government institutions after compromising CCTV devices worldwide! Earlier in two previous incidents, researchers discovered hackers taking over thousands of CCTV devices and conducting DDoS attacks on small business websites; now an IT security firm Arbor Networks has exposed a third event in which famous Lizard […]
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 daily web use, for filtering stolen files and for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where the power of combined compromised machines is used to flood target websites with traffic, thereby knocking them […]
“Hi, I’m from IT” call yielded access to customer records, lulz; Cox fined $596k. What’s the cost of giving up customers’ information because of weak information security practices? For Cox Communications, the answer is a half-million dollar fine and having the Federal Communications Commission watching its every information security move for the next seven years. […]
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) website was taken down by the cyber-attackers using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, apparently as an act of revenge for taking the users of Lizard Squad users under custody. After the DDoS attack, the website remained offline for more than three hours. This happened just within a […]
Cyber-attackers launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) violation on law enforcement agency in apparent revenge for previous arrests. Cyber-attackers have taken down the website of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in apparent revenge for arrests made last week. The NCA website was temporarily down on Tuesday morning, four days after six teenagers were released on […]
Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has been victim to a website hack, with Lizard Squad claiming responsibility.
The website for Malaysia Airlines was taken offline, in an attack claimed to be by the Lizard Squad hacking group, according to the BBC.
Lizard Squad failed to encrypt its database of LizardStresser’s registered users – storing details of their usernames and passwords in plaintext. A schoolboy error if ever I heard one.
Lizard Squad’s tool becomes very popular thanks to the millions of unsecured IoT devices ready for the taking. Security experts from Arbor Networks have uncovered over 100 botnets that are controlled using various variations of LizardStresser, the DDoS stresser created by the original Lizard Squad members. While most of Lizard Squad’s first members are in […]
Stressful Friday for Gamers as Blizzard’s Servers Targeted by Infamous Lizard Squad through DDoS DDoS attacks have become so widespread that every other day we hear about some website getting targeted and victimized. It has become the most common method of instigating a cyber-attack against private or government websites as well as private publications. However, […]
British police have today announced the arrest of six people in connection with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that attempted to bring down websites belonging to – amongst others – a national newspaper, a school and a number of online retailers. The link between the attacks is that they all appear to have been conducted using […]
Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, the same Lizard Squad who shutdown PSN and Xbox Live last Christmas making the holidays one living hell for games. Now the Lizard Squad hacked and defaced the official domain of Google Vietnam yesterday. After an investigation it was revealed that DNS infrastructure of Google name servers (ns1.google.com, — ns2.google.com) to CloudFlare (173.245.59.108, 173.245.58.166). The OpenDNS reported that […]
The attack which knocked the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Xbox Live offline over Christmas appears to have been a publicity stunt, designed to gain notoriety and draw attention to the hacking group which has claimed responsibility – Lizard Squad.