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Lizard Squad was a black hat hacking group, mainly known for their claims of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks [1] primarily to disrupt gaming-related services.. On September 3, 2014, Lizard Squad seemingly announced that it had disbanded [2] only to return later on, claiming responsibility for a variety of attacks on prominent websites.
Diagram of a DDoS attack. Note how multiple computers are attacking a single computer. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.
Reddit summarized the report by saying that he had planned to use distributed denial of service attacks to flood traffic [8] on various high-profile gaming websites associated with PhantomL0rd, including League of Legends and Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net. [6]
Blizzard noted that they had experienced DDoS attacks during the launch day as well as unexpected issues from the high concentrations of players in various locations. Players received five days of subscription time as compensation for the issues.
Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. [3] Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include APT44, [4] Telebots, Voodoo Bear, IRIDIUM, Seashell Blizzard, [5] and Iron Viking.
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GooseEgg is the name used by Microsoft to describe an exploit tool used by the Russian hacking group Forest Blizzard (also known as Fancy Bear and other names) to exploit CVE-2022-38028, a software vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. [1] The vulnerability is a flaw in the Windows print spooler that grants high privilege access to an attacker. [2]
Berserk Bear (also known as BROMINE, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, Dragonfly 2.0, DYMALLOY, Energetic Bear, Ghost Blizzard, [2] Havex, IRON LIBERTY, Koala, or TeamSpy) [3] [4] [5] is a Russian cyber espionage group, sometimes known as an advanced persistent threat. [1]