six teenagers arrested for using lizard

Six teenagers were recently arrested and later bailed on account of using the hacking tools of a certain Lizard Squad to breach softwares and websites, which included gaming companies, school servers and even newspapers. Learn on Udemy Today! The teenagers, aged between 15 to 18 and all male, were arrested during an operation by the UK police in search of hackers using the Lizard Stresser tool that allows the user to send spam to system and facilitate the denial of service (ddos) attack, which makes the website unavailable to the real time visitors. In the past, such ddos attacks have caused both reputational and financial damage to services provided by big business giants like Sony to even government websites, while these attacks interrupt the smooth functioning for a time interval that starts from a few hours and can last till weeks. This tool was effectively used by the Lizard Squad in December 2014, to interrupt the online gaming services of Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network. The tool is available in the market and can acquiring it can make a normal person into a potential hacker who can then select their targets according to their will. The UK police arrested the teenagers with the help of the National Crime Agency(NCA), while they were trying to pay anonymously for the tool using BitCoin. However, none of the six teenagers have been confirmed to be a member of the Lizard Squad. Tony Adams of NCA’s cybercrime unit, explained that by a small amount, a person can acquire the Lizard Stresser that can ruin big businesses and make access to information a deliria for the public. He further added that the arrest was made under an operation named ‘Vivarium’, and that the teenagers were operating from all across UK. A member of Lizard Squad was arrested in Twickenham in December for their involvement in cyber attacks, while a further member was arrested in May for pranking armed police. However, the hacking group’s tool remains available, despite its site being hacked revealing customers’ details.

Lizard Squad disrupt National Crime Agency website

The website of National Crime Agency (NCA), a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom which replaced the Serious Organised Crime Agency, was temporarily down on Tuesday morning by attackers. According to a news report published in The Guardian, the attackers did this as a revenge for arrests made last week. Four days ago before the attack, six teenagers were released on bail on suspicion of using hacking group Lizard Squad’s cyber-attack tool to target websites and services. They arrests were in an operation codenamed Vivarium, coordinated by the NCA and involving officers from several police forces. Those who were arrested: an 18-year-old from Huddersfield; an 18-year-old from Manchester; a 16-year-old from Northampton; and a 15-year-old from Stockport, were arrested last week, while two other suspects, both 17, were arrested earlier this year, one from Cardiff and another from Northolt, north-west London. However, all of them have been bailed, while a further two 18-year-olds – one from Manchester and one from Milton Keynes – were interviewed under caution. “The six suspects are accused of using Lizard Stresser, a tool that bombards websites and services with bogus traffic, to attack a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies and a number of online retailers,” the report reads. The NCA spokesperson told The Guardian that the NCA website is an attractive target. Attacks on it are a fact of life. DDoS is a blunt form of attack which takes volume and not skill. It isn’t a security breach, and it doesn’t affect our operational capability. “At worst it is a temporary inconvenience to users of our website. We have a duty to balance the value of keeping our website accessible with the cost of doing so, especially in the face of a threat which can scale up endlessly. The measures we have in place at present mean that our site is generally up and running again within 30 minutes, though occasionally it can take longer. We think that’s proportionate,” he added.