Lulzsec

The Bizarre Story Behind Last Night’s Craigslist Hack

If you tried to visit Craigslist late Sunday night, you probably had a very weird experience. Instead of arriving at that sultry sea of classifieds, you were probably sent to DigitalGangster.com. Then, you were likely redirected to YouTube, where a very strange animated rap video filled your ears with lyrics about freedom, privacy, and net…

Hacker Turned FBI Informant Sabu Will Be Sentenced on Tuesday

Wired reports that Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, the LulzSec hacker who became an FBI informant and helped take down numerous other hackers, will be sentenced on Tuesday, May 27th. The government will seek a sentence of just 7 months, citing time served and his immense cooperation with the government. https://gizmodo.com/sabu-is-still-working-for-the-fbi-5937058 Sabu’s sentencing has been…

British Spies Have Attacked Anonymous With DDoS

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News suggest that the UK’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a DDoS attack on the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec. A presentation allegedly from a 2012 NSA conference points out that GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack…

‘Self-Proclaimed’ Leader Of LulzSec Arrested

The Australian Federal Police have confirmed that they have arrested the alleged leader of notorious hacking group Lulzsec in Sydney. The alleged leader of the group, which spent its time breaching the CIA, Sony and News Corporation lives in Point Claire, NSW. He was arrested yesterday and is being charged with hacking offenses. Federal Police…

Cody Kretsinger, one of the LulzSec hackers behind 2011’s Sony breach, has just been sentenced to a year behind bars.

LulzSec Pleads Guilty

A bulk of the brains behind the most infamous hacking task force of the decade just fessed up. [The Independent]

Sabu Won’t Go to Prison Yet Because He’s Still Snitching

Sabu, probably the most notorious public face of hacking from this young, stupid century, still isn’t headed to prison. He hasn’t even been sentenced yet—because he’s still helping the FBI bust his friends. https://gizmodo.com/who-is-sabu-updated-5890964 Hector “Sabu” Monsegur, the project-dwelling mastermind of LulzSec, was supposed to receive his fate last week—but according to court documents, won’t…

The Year in Hacking

Hackers embarked on a strange voyage this year, beginning with spectacular, chaotic success, and ending with a whimper. We saw Anonymous nosedive from the most feared hacking force in the world to disorganized bench warmers. The dizzying highs, the stupid lows: here are 2012’s greatest hacking hits. January — Anon Avenges Megaupload Our dear Anonymous.…

LulzSec’s Topiary Talks About Life After Hacking, Says He Feels More Fulfilled Without Internet

Jake Davis—perhaps better known as Topiary, mastermind behind crazy Internet assaults during the summer of 2011—is out on bail with one obvious condition: no Internet. Now, 12 months after his heyday, he’s decided to reflect on his experience, and his new Internet-free life, and wrote about it in the Guardian. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-topiary-lulzsec-mastermind-updated-5826501 It must have been…

Second Accused LulzSec Hacker Surrenders to Authorities

20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to authorities today, less than a week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles brought an indictment against him on charges of an extensive computer breach involving Sony Pictures Entertainment, which ultimately cost the company over $600k. Unsealed today, the indictment accuses Rivera and conspirators of “of…

Sabu Is Still Working for the FBI

It’s been almost half a year since LulzSec mastermind Hector “Sabu” Monsegur turned on his people in one of the most dramatic turns of hacking history. And in order to get another half away from a judge, he’s still snitching. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous-5890825 Wired reports Sabu’s getting “a six-month reprieve from being sentenced on 12 counts of…

Anonymous’ Massive Data Leaks Are Being Erased Off the Internet

After every online strike by Anonymous and LulzSec—back when they did that sort of thing—it was inevitable that the leaked goods would wind up on Pastebin, the web’s vandalized bathroom stall. Now, the company wants out of the game. The Register reports Pastebin’s Dutch owner and awesome last name possessor, 28-year-old Jeroen Vader, is tired…

LulzSec Claims Big Comeback with Military Dating Site Hack

LulzSec is dead—everyone in it was betrayed and arrested. But that’s still one hell of a brand name, and one enterprising group isn’t letting it go to waste: 170,000+ dating profiles just got leaked in the name of LulzSec Reborn. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous-5890825 You might not be familiar with MilitarySingles—it’s not exactly OK Cupid: MilitarySingles.com is the…

LulzSec Traitor Sabu Was Also a Loud Horrible Neighbor

LulzSec/Anonymous mastermind Hector “Sabu” Monsegur pissed off a lot of people this week after selling out his entire team to the FBI. But there’s one more person who hated his guts: the downstairs neighbor who filed a complaint with the city of New York. So just how bad a neighbor was he? Read her email.…

Anonymous Posts Open Letter to Sabu on Hacked Website

Yesterday it was reported that Sabu had turned against his hacker community by working with the FBI. As a result, six key members of LulzSec have been arrested. In response, Anonymous has posted an open letter to Sabu on a website it hacked. Forbes reports that the hacker collective attacked the website of anti-virus firm…

Who Is Sabu? (Updated)

Yesterday, Sabu was a ghost—the spirit of Anonymous, having guided the group through its most powerful and infamous hacks. Now he’s Hector Monsegur, a 28-year-old unemployed Puerto Rican father of two from the New York projects—and a snitch. Here’s what we know: Sabu is Puerto Rican Sabu, unlike many of his cohorts, was not just…

Anonymous Reacts to Sabu’s Betrayal of LulzSec

We know the FBI pressured LulzSec leader Sabu into giving up vital info one some of the most active hackers in his collective. But how does Anonymous feel after this most recent, and hugely significant, turn of events? They’re not happy. [View the story "Anonymous Reacts to Sabu’s Betrayal" on Storify] The thing to take…

Read the Full LulzSec Indictments Right Here

In what’s looking more and more like LulzSec’s Waterloo, six top-ranking members of the notorious hacking collective were arrested today. Here, in their entirety, are their full indictments. It’s a fed’s-eye view of the organization that wreaked unfettered havoc for months last year. We’ll be reading through these in more detail, but for now it’s…

How the Feds Turned LulzSec’s Leader Against His Own

Sabu, the most notorious hacker alive and de facto leader of LulzSec, has been captured by the FBI, and apparently turned against his hacker comrades. This is how the FBI caught him and made him sing. According to a FOX exclusive, the 28-year-old Hector Xavier Monsegur was living in the Jacob Riis housing complex in…

LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous

According to the FBI, you’re looking at Sabu, the head of LulzSec, and the de facto King of Anonymous—easily the most notorious and influential hacker alive today. One thing: he just turned in his people to the police. The name Sabu should be familiar: as part of LulzSec, a potent offshoot of Anonymous, he masterminded…