LulzSec
FBI catches another Lulzsec man | TechEye
Untouchables claim he brought down Sony. The FBI have arrested a person it says was a member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of the Sony studios. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to US authorities. A federal grand jury decided there was enough evidence to charge [...]
LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach | The Hacker News
Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. The hacker had previously pleaded not guilty.Kretsinger was arrested last September, months before the recent raid on the “leaders” of the group. The hacker [...]
LulzSec hacker back in jail after using the Internet | geek.com
While the hacker group LulzSec was active it caused a number of sites to go dark including Mastercard and the CIA, they shared confidential documents from the Arizona state police, and stole user account details from a number of services including the Brink game servers. The group has now disbanded, but that was not the [...]
LulzSec hacker faces 15 years, Attacked Sony Pictures – TechEye
The Untouchables have swooped on the home of a man they think was a member of LulzSec, who took part in a computer breach of Sony Pictures. Cody Kretsinger, 23, from Arizona has been charged with conspiracy and the unauthorised impairment of a protected computer in connection with the attack in May and June. Reuters, which [...]
UK charges two, arrests two more linked with Anonymous – ComputerWorld
The UK continues to pursue those allegedly connected with Anonymous and Lulz Security. The U.K. is continuing to aggressively pursue so-called hacktivists, charging two men and arresting two more Thursday who are allegedly connected with the groups Anonymous and Lulz Security. The Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement released late Thursday night that the [...]
AntiSec hackers release ‘largest cache yet’ of law enforcement data – ZDNet
Hackers associated with the AntiSec movement — a LulzSec and Anonymous combined effort to breach systems with weak security — have released a 10GB in size cache of data belonging to law enforcement. Known as ‘Shooting Sherrifs Saturday’, this follows ‘F**k FBI Friday’ in June, where LulzSec published hundreds of hacked usernames, passwords and other [...]
Anonymous Claims Network Breach of FBI Security Contractor ManTech – eWEEK
Anonymous continued with its string of attacks designed to embarrass the FBI, this time claiming to have breached the network of ManTech International, the FBI’s cyber-security contractor. As promised, Anonymous has sought to embarrass the FBI with a network attack, this time going after defense contractor ManTech International. “Hacktivist” collective Anonymous claims to have “owned” [...]
UK Cops ‘duped’ into arresting wrong LulzSec suspect, Will the real Topiary please stand up? – The Register
The 19-year-old Scotsman fingered Wednesday as a central figure of the LulzSec hacking crew is a fall guy who was framed to take the heat off the real culprit, according to unconfirmed claims from a rival group. “We believe MET Police got the wrong guy and it happens because of lot of disinformation floating on [...]
Nominations in for 2011 Pwnie Awards, LulzSec and Anonymous listed – Didital Trends
Anonymous and LulzSec going head-to-head in the category for the most damaging, widely publicized, or hilarious hack of the year. Next week will see the fifth Pwnies award ceremony take place – think Oscars for the cyber security community. In the world of computer hacking, “pwn†means own or control, as in taking control of [...]
Anonymous, LulzSec vow to hack on – InfoWorld
There is nothing law enforcement can do to stop us, groups say in statement following this week’s arrests. In a defiant statement addressed largely at FBI director Steve Chabinsky, members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups vowed to continue with their hacking campaigns and dared law enforcement to try and stop them. The statement [...]
Anonymous and LulzSec respond to arrests and FBI claims – SC Magazine UK
Hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec have responded to global arrests, claiming ‘amazement and a certain amount of amusement’. Yesterday, 16 people were arrested in the US, UK and the Netherlands in connection with attacks on PayPal, AT&T and InfraGard. In a Pastebin statement, the groups responded to deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky’s message to hackers that [...]
Home of Outed Alleged LulzSec Member Raided in Ohio – threatpost
News reports say the FBI has raided a home in Hamilton, Ohio as part of an investigation of LulzSec, the group responsible for a string of attacks on prominent targets in recent months. Local media reports said the home, located on Jackson Road in Hamilton, Ohio, was the residence of a teenager who is believed [...]
Laughs Just Keep on Coming — LulzSec’s Final Release Contained Malware – All Things Digital
Saturday night as was I reporting on the “retirement†of the criminal hacker gang LulzSec, I took a chance: I downloaded the file containing the group’s “final drop,†which it had released to the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay. The file was 600-plus megabytes and contained several things, including evidence that the group, or someone [...]
LulzSec hacker identities apparently outed by rival group – Digital Trends
Lulz Security called out by rival group The A-Team in a newly posted document that outs the identities of key LulzSec members. For almost two months, hacker group Lulz Security has waged what amounts to an Internet terror campaign on… well… pretty much everyone. PBS.org, CIA.gov, Senate.gov, a range of major video game developer and [...]
LulzSec disbands: Final cache includes AT&T internal data and 750,000 user accounts – ZDNet
After fifty days of releases of vast caches of confidential data, from police units through to government departments, LulzSec announced on its Twitter feed this evening that it is to disband. But it seems that LulzSec wasn’t in it for the ‘lulz’ after all. The problem for groups shrouding themselves in anonymity is that they can never [...]
