Famous hackers group

Hackers Walkthrough

1. 10 Most Notorious Hacking Groups

2. Famous with the general populace for their vendetta (pun intended) against ISIS while donning the Guy Fawkes
masks, Anonymous is an open online creation group spread in many parts of the world.
They stand against the injustice of all kinds, keeping with their personality of vigilantes that becomes apparent
with their Guy Fawkes masks. They acted against the Church of Scientology, hacked the Pentagon, attacked Visa,
PayPal and MasterCard for refusing payments to WikiLeaks, and took down some websites belonging to ISIS.
Many individuals from countries like Netherlands, USA, UK, Australia, Spain, and Turkey have been arrested for
being allegedly belonging to Anonymous.
Anonymous

3. Lizard Squad’s list of victims includes high profile websites like the Malaysian Airlines website, where users were
redirected to a page with the message “404-plane not found”, and Facebook.
Although Facebook denied being hacked, their network was down for some time due to a DDoSattack by Lizard
Squad.
The group has also attacked Sony and Microsoft, with their members posting ISIS flags on Sony’s servers. Some
members were arrested in USA and England following their Xbox and PlayStation hacks.
Lizard Squad

4. One of the most notorious groups of previous years, The Level Seven Crew was involved in some big hacks
in 1999 but their functioning stopped in 2000.
They were allegedly inspired by the seventh level of hell according to Dante’s Inferno, which is the violent
level. Their list of victims includes The First American National Bank, NASA, the US Embassy in China’s
Website, and Sheraton Hotel.
The Level Seven Crew

5. Founded in Berlin in 1980 and one of the largest European Hacking groups, CCC is one of the good hacking groups
of the world that has been teaching the common public about technology since the 1980s.
The working of CCC is directed towards uncovering security flaws in major government and non-government
services. They said that they had to consult a lot of legal advisors before ascertaining what is illegal hacking and
what the grey area of legality in hacking is.
They clarified their intentions when they stole 134,000 marks from a bank in Hamburg using their Bildschirmtext
page. They showed their true intentions by returning back the entire money after exposing the security flaw in the
website.
However, they have been found guilty of selling U.S corporations’ and government’s source code to the KGB.
Chaos Computer Club

6. This group, short for LulzSecurity, was founded as a spinoff of Anonymous after the 2011 HBGarryHack. Their
slogan said “laughing at your security since 2011”.
Their existence was announced to the world when they first hacked Fox.com, followed by Sony Pictures, in 2011.
After that, LulzSectook down CIA’s website as well.
However, in 2012, the group members were arrested by the FBI because their leader, named Sabu, gave them
away.
LulzSec

7. Syrian Electronic Army aka SEA, is one of the groups that has a strict purpose of their functioning, which is to
stamp out opposition groups in Syria.
They are widely accredited to be active supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and identify themselves as
active Syrian youths who will not stand by idly to watch massive distortion of facts about recent uprisings in Syria.
Their activity is routinely marked by posting of the Syrian flag on a victim’s website, with the group using
techniques like phishing, DDoSattacks, spamming, and malware.
They have targeted Twitter accounts as well as Facebook pages of influential people like Barack Obama and
French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Syrian Electronic Army

8. This was a hacking group that was started by a street-gang member named Patrick Gregory.
The group’s activity includes hacking some 115 websites and destroying their data leading to millions of dollars’
worth damage. Although Gregory took to computers, his group behaved in a similar way a street gang does, with
the group regularly writing “global hell will not die” on US Army’s website.
globalHell

9. The NHCP Group is believed to have been found in China in 1994, the group is supposedly the one who
funded the People’s Liberation Army.
Their leader, Tan Dailin, was also widely believed to be working for the Chinese army.
Network Crack Program Hacker Group

10. This group was started by a 16-year in old in 2010 who used the pseudonym Trick.
The activity of this group included hacking into NATO, Facebook, Daily Mail UK site, the English DefenceLeague,
which included Tony Blair’s account.
Although they supposedly broke up in 2012, they resurfaced in 2015 as a white-hat security research group.
TeaMp0isoN

11. TarhAndishanis an Iranian hacking group that is comprised of a group of 20 highly skilled and talented hackers.
It is believed that the group, based in Tehran, formed due to the Stuxnetworm virus which, according to Iran, was
a joint effort by US and Israeli forces against them.
Their activity ranges far and wide, with the group being believed by many to wanting to control all the web-based
systems of the world.
TarhAndishan

12. The hacking groups discussed are just some of the many hacking groups that are functioning or are known to have
functioned at some point of time in the world.
Their activity shows that hacking is a serious issue, with some reports claiming that more than $575 trillion has
been lost as damage due to cyber crime or activities of hacktivists.
While some of these hacking groups have a social or political agenda behind their formation and activities, others
are just groups of people who are out there to instil fear in people.
While some, like Anonymous, have gained popularity with people for targeting terrorist outfits like ISIS, others
have received widespread hate and criticism for rendering public services helpless only for their personal gain.
Their stamping out is like cutting a tree with seeds in its flowers; the cutting of one tree sprouts many others due
to the spilling of the seeds.
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