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Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp Duo Charged by US Authorities
The organisations Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp have been responsible for causing a huge amount of disruption to essential online services. The individuals behind the two groups consistently attacked individuals and major companies through the DDoS method. This even brought down the gaming networks over the Christmas period and ruined the…
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Lizard Squad Using CCTV Cameras to DDoS People
Lizard Squad were made famous when they claimed responsibility for the outage of both Playstation’s and Xbox’s multiplayer over the Christmas period. Since then they have appeared occasionally in the news, mostly when a member of theirs was arrested and charged. It would sadly seem that the group is still up to…
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Phantom Squad Threatens Week-Long Xbox Live and PSN Attack over Christmas
Following its attack on Xbox Live earlier this week, hacker group Phantom Squad has threatened to take down both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for a week over Christmas, calling its first successful attempt a demonstration, The Independent reports. The Twitter account that Phantom Squad used to make these threats…
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Xbox Live Hit by Phantom Squad DDoS Attack
Only a few days ago, the “hacking group” known as Phantom Squad threatened to shut down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network during the Christmas period. Before I move onto today’s development, please note that the press shouldn’t really be referring to groups like Lizard Squad and Phantom Squad as hacking…
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NCA Website Temporarily Taken Offline by Lizard Squad DDOS Revenge Attack
The National Crime Agency is a UK body which tackles online cyber attacks and recently arrested 6 people for using Lizard Squad’s DDOS tool. In an act of retaliation, the hacking group conducted a DDOS attack on the NCA website. The team mockingly used the NCA’s logo in a Twitter…
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Six Arrested in Lizard Squad Crackdown
Six people in the UK have been arrested for using Lizard Squad’s infamous DDoS tool, Lizard Stresser. Operation Vivarium, co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency (NCA), was a nationwide initiative involving numerous police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs) across the UK. It is estimated that 30% of UK…
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Daybreak Games Under Attack after CEO Threatening Lizard Squad
Publicly attacking the cyber bullies Lizard Squad might not have been the best idea that Daybreak Games CEO John Smedley ever had. A day after he made headlines with his twitter posts, the massively multiplayer online zombie game, H1Z1, is experiencing trouble and people can’t login. Other Daybreak releases also experienced…
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Lizard Squad Hacker Convicted of 50,000 Counts of Computer Crime
A Finnish hacker, and member of the notorious Lizard Squad, has been found guilty of 50,700 charges of hacking, according to the nation’s newspaper, Kaleva. The hacker, 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki, was given a 2-year suspended sentence, meaning he will avoid prison on the proviso that help “to fight against…
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Tesla Twitter has Been Hacked
Update at the end of the article. Tesla, electric motoring giant; like many companies have taken to social media to boost the brand and also get into direct contact with consumers and just about anyone that is interested in their products. What comes with social media however is a massive…
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PlayStation Network Down Again
According to the official PlayStation Twitter account, PlayStation Network has suffered another outage. There is no news as to why, or whether it is down to another malicious attack, à la the Christmas DDoS attack on PSN by Lizard Squad. We're aware that some users are experiencing issues signing into…
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Lizard Squad PS4 Jailbreak Rumoured for 2015 Release
There are strong rumours abound that hacker collective Lizard Squad has developed a PlayStation 4 jailbreak and that it plans to release it at some point this year. Reports suggest that Lizard Squad found a security flaw in the PS4’s 2.03 firmware, allowing them to modify the root files to…
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Lizard Squad’s DDoS Service Hacked
How deliciously apt: Lizard Squad’s for-hire DDoS service, Lizard Stresser, has been hacked by unknown persons. Lizard Squad are the hacker group responsible for the attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network that brought the services down over Christmas last year. The group later claimed that these DDoS attacks were…
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Lizard Squad Hacked Home Routers to DDoS Attack Xbox Live and PSN
Brian Krebs, an online security blogger, has found how hacker group Lizard Squad managed to amass the trafficking power to take down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network over Christmas, and the answer lies very close to home. Krebs’ investigation – outlined on his blog, KrebsOnSecurity – led him to discover…
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Lizard Squad’s DDoS Tool Used to Take Down 4chan
A for-hire DDoS tool, run by Lizard Squad, the hacker group responsible for the Christmas attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, has been used to take down infamous den of depravity, 4chan.org. Lizard Squad made the DDoS tool, which they call Lizard Stresser, available to use by anyone who…
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Sony Apologises for PSN Outage With Five Days of PlayStation Plus
Sony, in an effort to make amends with customers over the Christmas hack of the PlayStation Network by hacker group Lizard Squad, are offering PlayStation Plus members five free days of membership. Any user with an active PS Plus membership or free trial on 25th December is eligible. In addition,…
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