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Although many security experts have ended with anger about the representation of Lizard Squad’s media as “sophisticated”, people reluctantly accepted that the Christmas attack had a great impact on cybersecurity and the game industry. There is no doubt that it was not the reason for the group – despite their clumsy attempts to claim it in the interviews. But it was an alarm clock. SECURITY SECURITYAFFAIRES website wrote an article “learned lessons” by dissecting my interview with Kivimäki. Many people have considered the script for Lizard Scrip Kiddies, they wrote, adding: “This approach is completely wrong.”
The size of the attack launched that day would be raised from the shoulders by most modern sites, but DDOS attacks are still common and become more powerful. The expensive protection services are now essential for any organization that must remain online.
The attacks also launched something from a cybercriminal trend. In 2024, Europol unveiled an international law for application of the law to reduce the DDOS services in December: “The holiday season has long been a peak period for pirates to carry out some of their most disturbing DDOS attacks, causing severe financial loss, reputation damage and operational chaos for their victims”. said in a press release.
At the time Attacks by Lizard Squad, the general public was amazed. Although Lizard Squad is the tail of a wave of hacking groups among adolescents in the 2010s, there was little conscience of the power that could be exercised by these otherwise amateur attackers. There was perhaps a vague feeling in the zeitgeist that “the hooded sweatshirts in their rooms” caused more and more problems, but this attack was immediate, unavoidable and easy to understand. It was of course so easy to get angry. In the coming days, I came back to history with follow-ups on the benefits while the other members of the Lizard team spoke to YouTubers of the so-called “drama”. But the great thing that the editorial hall did not stop asking me, when would these children arrested?
Vinnie Omari was the first. The day before the New Year, he was attacked by the organized crime region of the Southeast, which stuck it, suspected of cyber-infractions committed in 2013 and 2014. “They took everything: Xbox One, telephones, laptops, USB computer, etc.,” Omari to the journalist William Turton of Daily Dot told. He was then authorized for any involvement.
After the arrest of Omari, other lizards were also withdrawn. On January 16, 2015, police announced that they had arrested an 18 -year -old in Southport near Liverpool. They did not give a name, but the journalists of the Daily Mail identified him: “The” calm “teenager, locally named the name of Jordan Lee-Bevan, was arrested during a raid in his semi-detached house in Southport, Merseyside, today, with police officers striking computers while he was taken to a police car.”
In 2016, teenager Zachary Buchta from Maryland was also arrested for his role in Lizard Squad and another group called Poodlecorp. As a child, he had been warned in 2014 of his criminal path by the police who had surprised him doing a minor cybercrime activity. But he was not discouraged and even changed his Twitter profile at some point in @fbiarelosers to taunt the cops.
