Lizard Squad Hacker Whois & Cracker History
18Today I wanted to do a piece on the history and story's of Lizard Squad.
The Lizard Squad is a black hat hacking group known for orchestrating large-scale denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting a variety of high profile video game companies beginning in August 2014.
Known Members:
Vinnie Omari
Vinnie Omari is a member of the Lizard Squad who was arrested and bailed under the alleged offences of "Enter into/concerned in acquisition/retention/use or control criminal property, Fraud by false representation - Fraud Act 2006, Conspire to steal from another, unauthorized computer access with intent to commit other offences". He was used as a public face on television & as a spokeperson for the news to represent LizardSquad.
Julius Kivimäki
Julius Kivimäki (zeekill) is a Finnish member of Lizard Squad convicted in July 2015 on over 50,000 counts of computer crime.
Zachary Buchta
19-year-old Zachary Buchta (fbiarelosers) from Maryland, has been charged with computer crimes associated with a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, stolen credit cards & selling DDoS-for-hire services. He was one of the members behind LizardSquad and also the Co-Group "PoodleCorp" which launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against multiple networks and gaming services. Buchta was hiding behind the twitter alias @fbiarelosers, @xotehpoodle, and the online aliases “pein” & “lizard".[36] [37] [38] [39]
Bradley Jan Willem van Rooy
19-year-old Bradley Jan Willem van Rooy (UchihaLS) from the Netherlands, has been charged with computer crimes associated with a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, stolen credit cards & selling DDoS-for-hire services. He was one of the members behind LizardSquad who was mainly responsible for launching the ddos-attacks announced by the group. Also he was one of the two managers behind the twitter account @LizardLands which is the main twitter account of LizardSquad since January 2015. He was normally hiding behind his twitter alias @UchihaLS (which stands for Uchiha LizardSquad) and the online aliases “UchihaLS”, "Uchiha" & “Dragon".