It would also be easy to think the thing these lizards had in common was their gang/thug lifestyle instead of their hacking culture. Below is the affidavit filed in a US court in Chicago, which contains private Twitter and Jabber conversations between the four suspects. Lizard Squad’s leaders and key members are most interested in guns, drugs, gaming, and of course, hacking. The botnet was coded on top of the vDos API and helped investigative journalist Brian Krebs expose the vDos service, which eventually led to AppleJ4ck's arrest.īuchta and van Rooy face up to ten years in prison for their crimes. The PoodleCorp botnet backend panel leaked online this summer. Lizard Squad is tied to hundreds of DDoS attacks, usually against gaming companies, which group members brazenly advertise on Twitter. Authorities only questioned the two UK teens, while the Finnish man received a suspended prison sentence. Previously police arrested two teens in the UK and one man in Finland. PoodleCorp is a new name adopted by Lizard Squad in the summer of 2016.Īccording to the US Department of Justice, the two 19-year-olds had another two accomplices, one named "Chippyshell," Lizard Squad's founder, and the second, called "AppleJ4ck," the owner of the vDos service, who was arrested in Israel last month.īuchta and van Rooy are the fourth and fifth persons detained for ties with the Lizard Squad hacking crew. Hacking collective Lizard Squad is threatening to release nude pictures of Taylor Swift after hacking the singers Twitter and Instagram accounts. ”Īuthorities looking into the website's operation soon discovered ties to other websites operated by the Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp groups. “ Better look over your back because I don’t flying if we have to burn your house down, if we have to track your family down, we will your up. In one case, a victim from the US state of Illinois received threatening phone calls every hour for 30 days. The investigation into the group didn't start because of these websites, but because of the service, which allowed anyone to purchase on-demand harassment phone calls. Officials say that Buchta and van Rooy operated the, ,, and websites, which offered DDoS-for-hire services. Both suspects were arrested last monthīoth are now under custody in their countries after authorities arrested them at the end of September on charges of conspiracy to cause damage to protected computers. A Labour spokesperson said the Party did not wish to speculate on the motives or origins of the attack, adding that they had not previously heard of Lizard Squad. Officials say Buchta was the man behind the "fbiarelosers," "pein," "xotehpoodle," and "lizard" Twitter accounts, while Van Rooy operated the "Uchiha," "UchihaLS," "dragon,” and "fox" personas. The two are Zachary Buchta of Fallston, Maryland, and Bradley Jan Willem van Rooy of Leiden, the Netherlands, but they were mostly known for their online monikers. Law enforcement authorities in the US and the Netherlands have arrested two 19-year-old teenagers on suspicion on launching massive DDoS attacks as part of the Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp hacking crews.