Six Nabbed for Using Lizard Squad Attack Tool
Summary: Authorities in the United Kingdom arrested six young males accused of using the Lizard Squad's Lizard Stresser, a paid service that launched attacks capable of taking websites offline for up to eight hours. The tool drew on bandwidth from hacked home routers protected by factory-default usernames and passwords, and according to research cited in the article it had more than 176 paying subscribers who launched over 15,000 attacks against 3,907 targets in the two months it operated.
Key Takeaway: The NCA said targets included a leading national newspaper, a school, gaming companies and online retailers, and investigators were visiting 50 addresses tied to registered users, one-third of them under age 20. The attack capacity came from ordinary home routers still running default credentials.
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