In the midst of December, an internet foray scraped both the X Box Live and Play Station system offline. In an attempt to capture the culprit, the British law force detained a boy who was just eighteen years of age – many people expressed disapproval of this advance. Details of the person arrest marred all social media sites online especially Twitter and suggested that the person was wrongfully arrested by the police. The suspect, fondly called as “Jordie” by his friends and family, was found to be a teenager of color hailing from Rio de Janiero. His display photo and rare tweets on Twitter revealed that he was not a dweller of Southport that the police had thought him to be.
The detention had only been a subject of time for all those who keep up with the cybercriminal culture. The spectators see this as unavoidable because now Lizard Squad might do what is known as a typical sequence of events: come into the limelight, hack an online site, hack a larger online site until a mistake is made by one person from the gang that leads to one or more members of the gang being detained. Next is the predictable: Members will be frequently seen in court, the gang will split apart, and the members will silently disappear from sight.
This series of event have been repeated by all major hacking gangs in history. Kevin Mitnick became prominent in the late twentieth century for pilfering the password for numerous computer operating networks. Mitnick tried to hide but he was caught, and was put behind bars. And now he is a flourishing defense advisor.
In the start of the twenty first century, a hacker known as Coldfire asserted how some company cellular phone connections could be used to make low-priced international calls. Every now and then Coldfire (this was not his real name, although he was seen in person) would get detained and then bailed. Even when this continued, nothing happened and he finally vanished ,like the rest of them, out of sight.
Now, twenty years later, Lulz Sec come together but removed themselves form Anonymous, hacked a few gaming web sites, hacked larger websites( amongst which was the Serious Organized Crime Agency) and then got caught. Some members went on to serve jail time and now they can be seen making a living out of something other than hacking. 2 UK ex-Lulz Sec partners are silently occupied with lawful work , and others study in universities.
Mikko Hypponen, head study official at F-Secure, says that Lizard Squad reminds him of Lulz Sec. Hypponen has seen various hacker groups function and get arrested. He believes like all high-status tricks and astonishingly efficient attacks of other hacking groups which vanish – LizardSquad is to have the same fate.
There is nothing different about Lizard Squad than the hacker groups that have come before it. So its end is definite, even if it doesn’t happen in the near future.
