Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 31, 2015 @07:02PM from the book-em dept.

An anonymous reader writes: UK officials have arrested six teenagers suspected of utilizing Lizard Squad's website attack tool called "Lizzard Stresser". Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the infamous Christmas Day Xbox Live and PlayStation Network attacks. The teenagers "are suspected of maliciously deploying Lizard Stresser, having bought the tool using alternative payment services such as Bitcoin in a bid to remain anonymous," an NCA spokesperson wrote in an official statement on the case. "Organizations believed to have been targeted by the suspects include a leading national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers."

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Re:I disagree that this tool should be illegal by Idimmu+Xul · 2015-08-31 20:11 · Score: 4, Interesting

it's not a 'hack tool' it's a front end website to a backend zombie army of compromised routers, where do you think all the bandwidth for the DDOS is coming from? Their wordpress hosting plan?

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