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 ...
October 9, 2016 at 6:00 pm by John Williamson
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 ...
July 4, 2016 at 9:00 am by Gareth Andrews
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, ...
December 18, 2015 at 7:14 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
December 18, 2015 at 3:40 pm by John Williamson
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, ...
September 1, 2015 at 5:30 pm by John Williamson
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), ...
August 28, 2015 at 4:48 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
July 10, 2015 at 11:02 am by Bohs Hansen
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, ...
July 9, 2015 at 3:30 am by Ashley Allen
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 ...
April 25, 2015 at 10:25 pm by Rikki Wright
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 ...
February 2, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
January 28, 2015 at 8:58 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
January 19, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
January 10, 2015 at 5:55 am by Ashley Allen
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 ...
January 4, 2015 at 4:53 am by Ashley Allen
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 ...
January 3, 2015 at 3:55 am by Ashley Allen
