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Lizard Squad member jailed after offering DDoS-for-hire attack service

Lizard Squad member jailed after offering DDoS-for-hire attack service

“Hacker-for-hire” service that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites and phone-bombed its victims.

Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.

Graham Cluley

UK arrests teens for using Lizard Squad rent-a-DDoS service – ZDNet


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UK arrests teens for using Lizard Squad rent-a-DDoS service
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The Lizard Stresser tool, as noted by Engadget, was launched in 2014 and can be 'hired' through payment via Paypal or Bitcoin. For only a few dollars, you can hire the botnet to launch traffic against a target and potentially disrupt or take down a Web

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The unusual suspects: Ex-employees, Lizard Squad may have aided Sony hack

All sorts of theories about who really made off with terabytes of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s corporate data and then set off malware erasing the company’s hard drives have emerged over the past week in the wake of Sony’s release of The Interview. While the FBI is insistent that the responsibility for the Sony breach and cyber-defenstration rests solely on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, security analysts who have conducted their own examination of the malware and other information suggest that the attack was at least partially an inside job.

But there’s been another strange twist in the Sony Pictures saga: now Lizard Squad, the DDoS attackers involved in the Christmas denial-of-service attacks against Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, have claimed they were tangentially involved in the breach. Someone claiming to represent Lizard Squad told The Washington Post’s Brian Fung that Lizard Squad had sold Sony Pictures’ usernames and passwords to the Sony attackers (the “Guardians of Peace”). Fung said that his contact confirmed his identity by posting something to the group’s Twitter feed.

“We handed over some Sony employee logins to them,” said Fung’s source. “For the initial hack. We came by them ourselves. It was a couple.”

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Ars Technica » Technology Lab

“Lizard Squad” hackers force PSN offline and Sony exec from the sky

Hackers calling themselves “Lizard Squad” tweeted a bomb threat that forced a plane with Sony Online Entertainment’s president on board to divert for an emergency landing on Sunday. At the same time, a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack flooded traffic to Sony’s PlayStation Network, forcing the gaming network offline for a short time.
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