All posts tagged "Lizard Squad"
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250IncidentsLizard 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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300IncidentsLizard 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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243ArticlesCo-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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323Cyber CrimeTwo 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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420Data SecurityBASHLITE malware turning millions of Linux Based IoT Devices into DDoS botnet
Researchers have exposed millions of Linux-based IoT devices infected with BASHLITE malware — Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp have already released Linux-based DDoS tools. The...
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193Data SecurityThere 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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280IncidentsBlizzard And ‘World of Warcraft’ Taken Down By DDoS Attacks
DDOS attacks are a fact of life these days, it would seem. People were having trouble logging into Blizzard games such as...
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220HackedThese Vigilante Hackers Aim To Hack 200,000 Routers To Make Them More Secure
Short Bytes: Remember the white hat hackers — The White Team — responsible for creating the Linux.Wifatch malware last October? The same hackers...
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306Data SecurityVigilante 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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200IncidentsXbox Live pummeled by DDoS attack; hacker group claims responsibility
In an attack aping the work of the infamous Lizard Squad hacking group, the similarly titled Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for...
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193IncidentsFCC 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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293Cyber EventsLizard 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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268Data SecurityLizard 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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219Data SecurityLizardStresser: 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...
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200Cyber CrimeUK National Cyber Crime Unit nabs 56 cyber criminals over the last week
National Crime Agency, a London based law enforcement agency, has arrested as many as 56 individuals over the last week for various...
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274NewsLenovo Website Hacked amid SuperFish Malware scandal
The official website of world’s largest PC maker was hacked earlier Wednesday allegedly by Lizard Squad. Hackers left a deface page containing slideshow...
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370NewsGoogle Vietnam Domain Hacked by Lizard Squad
Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, the same Lizard Squad who shutdown PSN and Xbox Live last Christmas making the holidays one living hell for games....
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284GeekFacebook outage yesterday—a technical glitch, not a cyber attack
The Facebook outage yesterday, which lasted for about one hour, was an internal technical glitch, said Facebook in a statement on its...
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327NewsMalaysian Airlines Website Hacked by ISIS’ Cyber Caliphate Hackers
The official website of Malaysian Airlines has been hacked and defaced by Cyber Caliphate, the ISIS supporting hacking group. Visitors on the Malaysian...
