Now this group already has competition: a group of "good" hackers who claim to know the identities of the Lulzsec group, according to Time Techland.
This group of hackers are also called 'grey hat' and their main objective is to prevent attacks on the security of Internet pages.
This cyber police calls itself Web Ninjas and is integrated among others, by the jester or Th3j35t3r, who is a former military hacker and claims to have participated in attacks on pages such as WikiLeaks. The group claims to have deciphered lulz Sec's identity and turned over the evidence to the FBI. He is also documenting his search on a website called LulzSec Exposed.
Unlike Anonymous, the attacks of this group seem to be random, in addition to the fact that their behavior is not guided by moral norms, or targets directed by some kind of activism but by pure fun. Their participation in twitter is active and after the attacks they tend to mock the supposed security system of the pages to which they cause some interference. They have also published a phone line for their followers, or anyone, to suggest a new target.
According to the BBC, the attack on the website of the British government's security agency (Soca, the 'British FBI') is part of the plan launched on Monday by LulzSec and Anonymous, which have joined forces against any government, agency or corporation in the world that tries to restrict "freedom and progress" with all kinds of attacks and leaks on the network in an operation called Anti-Security (Operation Anti-Security, or #AntiSec).
SOCA temporarily decommissioned the website to minimize the impact that customers hosted by its service provider could suffer. The website was stopped throughout the afternoon of Monday and was gradually restored throughout this Tuesday, with some intermittencies in the service.
LulzSec has confirmed that it was behind the attack perpetrated on the website of the British government's security agency. According to the British network, on Monday, while the agency began an investigation to find the origin of the problem, LulzSec wrote on Twitter: "Tango downed, in the name of the #AntiSec."
Shortly after he explained in another tweet the nature of the hack: "DDoS attacks, of course, are our least powerful and most abundant ammunition. The government hacking is taking place right now behind the scenes." A spokesperson for the website told the BBC: "The SOCA website is a source of information for the general public that is received by a third-party provider. It is not related to our operating material or the data we hold."
LulzSec has denied, however, being behind the alleged theft of British census data. An alleged member of the group published a document on the Pastebin portal, according to which hackers had appropriated all the information from the 2011 UK census, a database with the latest information on the entire POPULATION of the United Kingdom, including all kinds of statistics on individuals.
On this website, he points out that "he has happily obtained the records of each of the citizens who left their data in the hands of the painful security of the United Kingdom government for the 2011 census", and that for the moment they will keep the data until they give them the correct format and can distribute them through ThePirateBay.
This post coincided with an enigmatic tweet on the LulzSec account in which they said: "Our next step is to categorize and format elements that have been leaked, that we already have and that we will publish in The Pirate Bay."
However, hours later the organization of 'hackers' published several 'tweets' in which it denied having stolen the data of the census of Kingdom. "We have just seen in Pastebin the hack of the UK census. It wasn't us, don't create fake versions of LulzSec unless we put it in a tweet first," Lulzsec wrote.
The group of "good" hackers called Web Ninjas seems not to be the only one that is on the trail of LulzSec, because a few days ago an anonymous record of conversations between the members of the group was published. LulzSec responded to the meddling by saying that the channel they had been able to enter was used solely to "recruit talent and alternate operations," according to Time Techland.
During these chat conversations, certain names such as joepie91/Neuron/Storm/trollpoll/voodoo, kayla and topiarywere revealed as possible collaborators. However, the group denied involvement of the first five and did not comment on Kaylaand Topiary, suggesting that the latter two are active members of the group.
These two names have been linked to the group Anonymous and it is believed that one of them (Topiary) was the one who, after an attack on the Westboro Baptist Church, debated the meddling on a radio program.
The Web Ninjas group claims that it discovered the identity of the leader of LulzSec (Sabu in the photo) and even claim to have his location and other personal data. It seems that the battle for the web and the meddling has only begun.
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