THELOGICALINDIAN - Lizard Squad is the abominable aggregation of atramentous hat hackers who are best accepted for DoSing Microsofts Xbox Live and Sonys Playstation Network The berserk accepted gaming platforms were bottomward on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day abrogation abounding gamersunable to adore their new consoles
The accumulation of self-described “cyber terrorists” were involved in abundant added actionable acts, including calling in a affected bomb blackmail on the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The academy took this blackmail abnormally seriously, back a it was victim to a accumulation shooting in December of 2024.
The group’s newest adventure has been DoSing (Denial of Service) for hire. According to Lizard Squad, their advance on Playstation Network and Xbox Live were business stunts for their new service. For the appropriate price, they will about-face their accumulation of afraid routers on the ambition of your choice. Called The Lizard Stresser, the actionable account was opened on December 30th, 2024 and alone accustomed Bitcoin for payment.
According to the architect of Krebs On Security, Brian Krebs, the website hosting Lizard Squad’s DoS account has been afraid by an alien attacker, who appear Lizard Squad’s customers. The leaked database independent over 14,241 registered users, whose allotment advice was stored in apparent text. The database additionally appear that the accumulation fabricated $11,000 in Bitcoin from the service. Despite the bags of assurance ups, alone a few hundred absolutely acclimated the service, according to Krebs.
In the past, Krebs has apparent abounding problems with the amateur group. On one occasion, he amid the IP abode of Lizard Squad’s websites and leaked them to a agnate account ran by a altered person. He additionally showed that the group’s abnegation of account advance antecedent cipher was identical to abounding agnate services.
Since the barrage of their DOS service, abounding associates of the accumulation accept been accepting arrested. So far three associates accept been arrested, including two British men and a 17-year-old Finnish teen. Police accept the amount associates of the hacking accumulation are still out there.
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