Lizard Squad
The logo used in Lizard Squad's official Facebook and Twitter accounts
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| Formation | August 18, 2014 |
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| Type | Hacking |
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Lizard Squad is a black hat hacking group, mainly known for their claims of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks primarily to disrupt gaming-related services.
On September 3, 2014, Lizard Squad seemingly announced that it had disbanded only to return later on, claiming responsibility for a variety of attacks on prominent websites. The organization at one point participated in the Darkode hacking forums and shared hosting with them.
On April 30, 2016, CloudFlare published a blogpost detailing how cyber criminals using this group's name were issuing random threats of carrying out DDOS attacks, despite these threats, CloudFlare claim they failed to carry through with a single attack. As a result of this, the City of London Police issued an alert warning businesses not to comply with ransom messages threatening DDOS attacks.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when numerous systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple systems (for example a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic. When a server is overloaded with connections, new connections can no longer be accepted.
On August 18, 2014, servers of the game League of Legends were taken offline with a DDoS attack; this was claimed as Lizard Squad's first attack.
On November 23, 2014, Lizard Squad claimed they attacked Destiny servers with a DDoS attack.
On August 24, 2014 the PlayStation Network was disrupted via a DDoS attack, and again On December 8, with Lizard Squad claiming responsibility.
On December 1, 2014, Xbox Live was apparently attacked by Lizard Squad, users attempting to connect to use the service would be given the 80151909 error code.
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