The lizard time
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 organisation at one point participated in the Darkode hacking forums and shared hosting with them.
lizard DoS attacks
First we must have to know what DDoS is?
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.
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League of Legends DDoS
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.Destiny DDoS
On November 23, 2014, Lizard Squad claimed they attacked Destiny servers with a DDoS attack.PlayStation Network DDoS
On August 24, 2014 the PlayStation Network was disrupted via a DDoS attack, and again On December 8, with Lizard Squad claiming responsibility.Xbox Live DDoS
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.The Machinima Hack
On December 2, 2014, Lizard Squad hacked Machinima.com, replacing their front page with ASCII art of their logo.North Korea DDoS
On December 22, 2014, Internet in North Korea was taken offline by a DDoS attack. LizardSquad claimed responsibility for the attack and linked to an IP address located in North Korea. North Korean Internet services were restored on the 23 December 2014.Christmas attacks
Lizard Squad had previously threatened to take down gaming services on Christmas.On December 25, 2014 (Christmas Day), Lizard Squad claimed to have performed a DDoS attack on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.
On December 26, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Lizard Squad appeared to stop attacking PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Gizmodo reported that the attacks may have ceased after Kim Dotcom offered Lizard Squad 3000 accounts on his upload service MEGA.
Tor sybil attack
On December 26, 2014, a Sybil attack involving more than 3000 relays was attempted against the Tor network. Nodes with names beginning with "LizardNSA" began appearing, Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for this attack.The relevance of the attack was questioned. According to Tor relay node operator Thomas White, the consensus system made that Lizard Squad only managed to control "0.2743% of the network, equivalent of a tiny VPS".
Malaysia Airlines website attack (my favorite)
On January 26, 2015, the website of Malaysia Airlines was attacked, apparently by Lizard Squad, calling itself a "cyber caliphate". Users were redirected to another page bearing an image of a tuxedo-wearing lizard, and reading "Hacked by Cyber Caliphate". Underneath this was text reading "follow the cyber caliphate on twitter" after which were the Twitter accounts of the owner of UMG, "@UMGRobert" and CEO of UMG, "@UMG_Chris". The page also carried the headline "404 - Plane Not Found", an apparent reference to the airline's loss of flight MH370 last year with 239 people on board. Malaysia Airlines assured customers and clients that customer data had not been compromised.Media reports around the world said versions of the takeover in some regions included the wording "ISIS will prevail", which listed concerns of Lizard Squad's association with the Islamic State.
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