Lizard Squad

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Alleged Lizard Squad members hacked Malaysia Airlines. Are They linked to the IS?

The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by hackers that claimed to be from the Lizard Squad, but who referenced the IS and the cyber Cyber Caliphate. The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by alleged members of the popular collective “Lizard Squad”, the curious thing is that hackers also referenced Islamic State jihadists. Malaysia Airlines released […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2015
Rumors say Lizard Squad is going to release PlayStation 4 Jailbreak

Rumors on the Internet reveals that the PlayStation 4 Jailbreak hack allegedly made by the Lizard Squad would be soon available. It is difficult to understand right now how true the news, but according to rumors circulating in the Internet the popular hacking collective Lizard Squad, responsible for the attacks against Sony PSN, XBox live and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2015
Sony hackers hacked. Lizard Stresser database leaked online with credentials in plaintext

Database of the Lizard Stresser DDoS tool proposed by the Lizard Squad was leaked on like revealing that the group stored client’s credential in plaintext. Last week the another alleged member of the popular Lizard Squad was arrested by UK authorities, the British Police in collaboration with the FBI identified a 18-year-old boy that is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2015
Young man arrested in UK for attacks on Xbox live and PSN online services

SEROCU unit in a joint operation with the FBI arrested a man accused to have been involved in the DDoS attack of Sony Playstation and Xbox systems. The British Police in collaboration with the FBI has arrested a 18-year-old boy that is suspected to have participated to the DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2015
Lizard Stresser hacking tool relies on compromised home routers

Security expert Brian Krebs and a research team discovered that the Lizard Stresser DDoS tool relies on compromised Home Routers. Over the holidays the Lizard Squad team knocked out the networks of Sony PSN and Microsoft Xbox live service using a tool they have designed to run DDoS attacks. The tool is dubbed Lizard Stresser and according to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2015
UK police arrested alleged Lizard Squad member

A member of the Lizard Squad hacking group that shutdown the Play Station Network and the Xbox live service networks has been arrested by the UK police. In these days, we have followed the news related to hacking team known as the Lizard Squad who became famous for having ruined Christmas for millions of users of PSN […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2014
Sony PSN hackers Lizard Squad helped the GoP in the Sony Pictures Attack

A member of the Lizard Squad team confirmed that its group provided stolen data to GoP that was used in the attack against the Sony Pictures. The cyber criminal ecosystem is a very complex environment to monitor and analyze, many events occurred in the cyberspace seemingly unrelated, instead are connected by a thin line. This […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2014
Lizard Squad reveals itself. What to learn from the attack?

Sky News has interviewed one of the members of Lizard Squad that explained the motivation of the recent cyber attacks. What to learn from the attack? The Lizard Squad team is the hacking collective that ridiculed the IT giants Microsoft and Sony in the Christmas day, the popular hackers have brought down the Play Station […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2014
Lizard Squad hit the Tor network, after Christmas attacks on Sony PSN and XBox Live networks

Members of the hacking group Lizard Squad, which have paralyzed the networks of Xbox live and PlayStation PSN, now have targeted the Tor network. The hacking collective Lizard Squad that has paralyzed the Play Station Network and Xbox live networks at Christmas now seems to concentrate its efforts on the popular anonymizing Tor network. In time I’m […]