The agency against the British Crime launched a major operation against hackers suspected of attacks against Yahoo, PlayStation or the US State Department.
In the world of hacking, a brute force attack is to test one by one and in no time, all possible combinations to find the password of one or more users. At the National Crime Agency (NCA), while British FBI, the term could be used to describe the raids this week against hackers leading to the arrest of suspected theft of data or computer virus creation.
The operation is large. Called "Strike Week", it led to the arrest of 56 people, including hackers suspected of being behind the hacking Yahoo, the Department of Defense of the United States or PlayStation, says the BBC . Among the suspects, there is a young man of 21, accused of being part of the collective D33Ds who hacked Yahoo in 2012 and issued 453,492 Internet passwords. Another suspect was arrested in Leeds. It would be a member of the Lizard Squad group claimed responsibility for the simultaneous attack online service Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, on Christmas Day.
Lizard Squad, under police pressure
In late January, the Malaysia Airline site was hacked by "defacement" - unwanted change the presentation of a website. Then displayed on the home page of the airline, a logo with a lizard with a pipe and a bowler hat. Lizard Squad and was a minor celebrity in the category of black hat hackers, the hackers with malicious intent to differentiate white hat or gray hat as the collective Anonymous.
Like when in the early years of Facebook goes down for an hour. The group claims responsibility despite the denial of the social network. It must be said that the works of the group are not very sharp. But it is claiming to be "the official cyber caliphate," they drew attention in full coalition against the Islamic state. In August 2014, members were already arrested. Then in January, police interpellait a member in Finland and two others already in the UK, giving the impression that the noose tightens for the gang lizards.
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