Authorities have rooted out and arrested more members of infamous hacker group Lulzsec.
For a short while, Lulzsec was dominating the headlines across the web, attacking various websites and servers in a short period of time. Major corporations were brought down, sensitive data was stolen and posted for the public, and servers were even taken down based on the whims of random members of the public phoning in.
The Lulzsec campaign was short and brutal, with the members going underground shortly after their final attacks, most likely out of a fear of being tracked down due to the seriousness of their crimes – there hasn’t been so much as a Twitter post in months.
While they’ve been out of the headlines and the attacks have ceased, authorities across the globe have been doggedly tracking them down. Just last month, five people were arrested under suspicion of being “Kayla”, one of the Lulzsec members. A key Lulzsec figure, Sabu, tweeted confirming that Kayla had indeed been arrested, but not whether the identity was used by more than one member.
A teenager from the Shetland Islands, Topiary, believed to be the main Lulzsec figure, now awaits trial after been caught via tracing of his Xbox account.
Police in Arizona have now captured 23-year-old Cody Anfew Kretsinger, who used the identity “Recursion”, a name which showed up multiple times in chat logs during the attacks on Sony.
According to Sabu, it is now just him/her and one other member (believed to be Avunit) walking free. The full list of arrested figures are Topiary, Kayla, Recursion, Tflow, Pwnsauce, and Palladium.
Lulzsec of course is a splinter group from the hacker hivemind, Anonymous, who claims to hold no particular membership lists, and makes use of its thousands of followers to coordinate attacks.
Key attackers from this group have also recently been arrested: Christopher Doyon, 47, of Mountain View, California, and Joshua Covelli, 26, of Fairborn, Ohio, believed to be key members of the subclan “People’s Liberation Front.”
Anonymous and Sabu have promised vengeance however, specifically against parties in New York responsible for quelling Wall Street protesters. A note from the group promises, “Anonymous and other cyber liberation groups will launch a series of cyber-attacks against various targets including Wall Street, Corrupt Banking Institutions – and the NYC Police Department.”
Source: Dailytech
