Lulzsec member arrested

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LulzSec Mastermind Suspect Arrested in Essex, England [UPDATED]


A 19-year-old suspected to be the mastermind behind the hacker group LulzSec has been arrested in Wickford, Essex in England, in a joint action by the Scotland Yard and the FBI, Sky News reports.
LulzSec recently got the public’s attention by hacking Sony’s servers, capturing hundreds of thousands of personal user records.
The same group also claims to have attacked the servers of several major online games, such as EVE Online and Minecraft, as well as Nintendo, the CIA and the U.S. Senate.
“The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group. Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night have led to the examination of a significant amount of material,” said a Scotland Yard spokesman.
Not long after news of the suspect’s arrest, LulzSec issued its own sort of statement via Twitter:

 

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seems they claim someone put their set sail for fail boat on a hack job, and he's been caught - not really one of them....

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Rumours were apparently circulating that LulzSec was involved in hacking the UK government. These rumours were followed up by a supposed arrest of one of its members, but LulzSec has denied both today.


There was some dramatic news this morning regarding LulzSec. One story was about LulzSec hacking and obtaining the 2011 UK census data. Numerous outlets including theWall Street Journalwere reporting this news. What followed was an even more dramatic story that someone from LulzSec was arrested. This, again was reported on high profile news outlets like CBS and ZDNET and the Associated Press. So, what was true about LulzSec? It turns out, none of the above.

LulzSec was ridiculing the news. Here’s a series of Tweets of them discussing the news:

LulzSec: “Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it’s all over now… wait… we’re all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?”

LulzSec: “People should keep releasing fake LulzSec stuff. It helps filter out the peon masses from the respectable, fact-checking media outlets.”

LulzSec: “But hey, if someone out there hacked the UK government in the name of #AntiSec, well done sirs!”

LulzSec: “Anyone in the world can copy and paste The Lulz Boat ASCII art and general lighthearted theme. Smarten up, check the feed first. #AntiSec”

LulzSec: “Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn’t us – don’t believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first.”

So, where did the rumours come from exactly? It’s very hard to say with so many media outlets reporting on the same thing. One report fromNaked Securtywas pointing to a page on a UK police websitewhile saying it was LulzSec that was arrested. However, the original police report makes no mention of LulzSec. The report merely says that a 19 year old was arrested following “an investigation into network intrusions and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group.”
The arrest was made while working with the FBI.

Looking at the police report, if other outlets were using the same police report, I think it’s a fairly easy mistake to make because LulzSec and Anonymous were making numerous headlines for their hacking and/or DDoS attacks. The way it was described sort of sounds like it is LulzSec they are describing, but it’s pretty obvious afte checking their Twitter feed that they had nothing to do with either hacking the UK website or being arrested. Will members of LulzSec be arrested? Maybe, but not today.

 

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The update on LulzSec & Anonymous, more members arrested, 2 new members exposed

With the fights between rival hacking factions and members turning on each other from the inside, it looks like things will get pretty chaotic for the two notorious hacking groups, LulzSec and Anonymous.

It seems no hack is truly untraceable, several members have been arrested in the UK, Spain and Turkey and the most recent arrest just yesterday, Ryan Cleary, a suspected Anonymous member who split from the group after it became “too PR hungry.” The Metropolitan Police has not confirmed whether he is a member and that “investigations are being made to establish if he is linked to any such group.”

On top of the arrests, feud from within LulzSec has led two hackers exposed. The two hackers decided to turn on LulzSec and reveal who they were but has been exposed instead. In a Pastebin post, commonly used by LulzSec, explains that the two hackers tried to “snitch on them,” and to take revenge, they revealed their identities to the public boasting to the FBI and other “law enforcement clowns” that “we just did your job for you with great ease.”

The first alleged hacker named Marshal Webb residing in Hamilton, Ohio, was claimed to be “involved in the hacking of the game Deus Ex” along with “countless other cybercrimes”. The second hacker, Michael Dean Major, Halethorpe, Maryland, claims is “also wanted for some pretty heavy stuff.”

LulzSec finalized their statement with “these goons begged us for mercy, but there is no mercy on The Lulz Boat. Snitches get stiches.”

There is no confirmation whether these two members are in fact guilty of the crimes claimed by LulzSec, or a joke to mislead the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, but if true, this would certainly lead the FBI to a small victory over cyber crime. If the two members were arrested, there may even be a chance to shed some light on the rest of the LulzSec members’ true identities.

If there’s any lesson to be learned from all this, there are no honor among thieves and there are no honor among hackers.

 

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British hacker refused bail, diagnosed with autism


Ryan Cleary, 19, appeared at a London court charged with offences including hacking into the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the British equivalent of the FBI.

Judge Nicholas Evans initially granted him bail after his defence team said the teenager had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, since his arrest.

However the decision was swiftly overturned after objections by prosecutors. His bail appeal will be heard on Monday.
Police arrested Cleary on Monday last week at his home in Wickford, southeast England, as part of a probe by Scotland Yard and the FBI into the Lulz Security hacking group.

Lulz has claimed responsibility for a month-long rampage against international businesses and government agencies, including the CIA and Senate in the United States and electronics giant Sony.

Cleary was in court for the second time in three days. He did not enter any plea to the five offences under the Criminal Law and Computer Misuse Act with which he is charged,

Ben Cooper, defending Cleary, expressed concern about his client's welfare given the recent diagnosis of Asperger's. He told the court Cleary was extremely intelligent but agoraphobic and had difficulty interacting with other people.

British police on Wednesday charged Cleary with targeting the website of SOCA with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
DDoS attacks overwhelm websites with requests, causing them to be slow or inaccessible.

He was charged with similar attacks on the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in November and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on October.

Cleary faces two further charges of creating a "botnet" or network of computers to carry out DDoS attacks. Lulz has denied that Cleary was part of the group.
His case closely mirrors that of Gary McKinnon, a Briton who also has Asperger's and is fighting extradition to the United States over allegations ofhacking into US military computers