Collaborate Disseminate
A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. Continue reading Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. Continue reading Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France
Microsoft is trying to make life harder for the hackers who ruin Christmas for gamers every year by knocking Xbox services offline. The company on Thursday announced a bug bounty program that offers rewards to security researchers, gamers and technologists who report vulnerabilities in Xbox’s network and services. Submissions that demonstrate a proof-of-concept are eligible for rewards of between $500 and $20,000, depending on the severity of the vulnerability. Unveiling a bug bounty program meant specifically to identify flaws in Xbox’s network and services comes after hackers have spent years working to disrupt the popular gaming system. The hacking group known as Lizard Squad, for instance, made its name in part by launching attacks on the Xbox network on Christmas Day, when gamers receive new systems, while others have made a sport out of stealing prominent user accounts. While there’s no question Xbox deals with security incidents throughout the year, […]
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The threats follow a DDos attack bent on taking out the Labour Party’s online presence. Continue reading Lizard Squad Threatens UK’s Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family
According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%. Continue reading FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools.
On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Hertfordshire resident George Duke-Cohan, who admitted making bomb threats to thousands of schools and a United Airlines flight traveling from the U.K. to San Francisco last month. Continue reading Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats
A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools.
On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (N… Continue reading Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats
It felt like Lizard Squad was everywhere for a few months in 2014. The group of teens knew how to get headlines: They picked special days to launch high-profile denial of service attacks against famous targets. The group was responsible for taking down some of the world’s biggest video game networks, including an attack on the PlayStation and XBox Live networks on Christmas Day. Other targets included Taylor Swift’s social media accounts, the Tor network and North Korea. The group tweeted and trolled online throughout their crusade, with one member even giving a live video interview to British media. Then some, including the now 20-year-old Maryland man Zachary Buchta, went on to form a second similar group known as PoodleCorp. That outfit ran DDoS-for-hire services named PoodleStresser. An unknown hacker eventually breached PoodleStresser and arrests followed. Buchta, who was behind the Twitter account @fbiarelosers, pleaded guilty last December to conspiracy to commit damage to protected computers. On Tuesday, he was […]
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“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.
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By Waqas
According to researchers, evidence suggests Lizard Squad is alive and
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