EXCLUSIVE: Inside LulzSec, a mastermind turns on his minions. Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two who allegedly commanded the loosely organized international hacker team LulzSec. Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two who allegedly commanded the loosely organized international hacker team LulzSec. Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two who allegedly commanded the loosely organized international hacker team LulzSec. Hector Xavier Monsegur is “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two who allegedly commanded the loosely organized international hacker team LulzSec. EXCLUSIVE: For the last eight months, the self-styled “hacktivists” who make up LulzSec and the international hacker community beyond have been led by a turncoat.
Flipping Monsegur wasn’t easy. “He didn’t go easy,” a law enforcement official involved in flipping Sabu told FoxNews.com. “He really cares about these kids,” a source said. They did. FBI Nabs Six Hackers. 6 March 2012 crimes-affecting-over-one-million-victims Six Hackers in the United States and Abroad Charged for Crimes Affecting Over One Million Victims Four Principal Members of “Anonymous” and “LulzSec” Charged with Computer Hacking and Fifth Member Pleads Guilty; “AntiSec” Member also Charged with Stealing Confidential Information from Approximately 860,000 Clients and Subscribers of Stratfor U.S.
Five computer hackers in the United States and abroad were charged today, and a sixth pled guilty, for computer hacking and other crimes. HECTOR XAVIER MONSEGUR, a/k/a “Sabu,” a/k/a “Xavier DeLeon,” a/k/a “Leon,” who also identified himself as a member of Anonymous, Internet Feds, and LulzSec, pled guilty on August 15, 2011 in U.S. The following allegations are based on the indictment, the information, the complaints, and statements made at MONSEGUR’s guilty plea: The Stratfor Hack. USA v. Hector Xavier Monsegur EDVA. U.S. Charges Six in LulzSec and Anonymous Computer-Hacking Incidents. FBI Says LulzSec Hacker Kingpin Was an Informant. (Updated 11:30 a.m.)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that they've identified and arrested all of the key members of the now defunct hacktivist group LulzSec thanks to the clandestine cooperation of the group's chief who told many of Anonymous's secrets. According to Fox News' sources, the hacker that goes by the handle Sabu -- a.k.a. Hector Xavier Monsegur, an unemployed father of two living in New York City -- has been feeding the Feds information since they unmasked him last summer.
But those familiar with the hacker ways will know that doxing (that's hackerspeak for exposing one's true identity) can be a very complex game, and this is hardly the first time that someone's claimed to identify Sabu or other LulzSec leaders. RELATED: Anonymous's and LulzSec's Overlapping, FBI-Thwarting Pasts The timeline that Fox News lays out makes sense for a few reasons. Monsegur's name, address, and personal information appeared online last June, and he was identified then as Sabu.
LulzSec hackers arrested, source says. Jake Davis, shown after appearing in court in London last summer, is one of five hackers now facing federal charges in the U.S. 5 alleged hackers in the U.S. and Europe have been charged in Manhattan court A sixth has pleaded guilty to computer hacking and other crimesThey are suspected to be top members of "Anonymous" and splinter groups Groups called Internet Feds, AntiSec, LulzSec claimed responsibility for cyberattacks NEW YORK (CNN) -- Top members of the computer hacker group "Anonymous" and its offshoots were arrested and charged Tuesday after a wide-ranging investigation used the help of a group leader who was working as a secret government informant.
Five of the suspects, considered by investigators among the "most sophisticated hackers in the world," were arrested in the United States and Europe and charged in a Manhattan federal court over their alleged role in high-profile cyberattacks against government agencies and large companies, according to an indictment. HideMyAss defends role in LulzSec hack arrest. High performance access to file storage HideMyAss has defended its role in handing over evidence that resulted in the arrest of a suspected LulzSec member last week. UK-based HideMyAss, which offers freebie web proxy and paid-for VPN services, said it handed over potentially incriminating data to the feds only in response to a court order. It had been aware that its service was being used by Anonymous/LulzSec members for some time before this without taking any action, as a blog post headed LulzSec fiasco by the firm explains. Cody Andrew Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona allegedly used HideMyAss.com's web proxy service to hack into the systems of Sony Picture Entertainment as part of a hack that exposed the personal details of thousands of gamers.
According to the court order, Kretsinger used SQL injection techniques that were run via HideMyAss's anonymising web proxy service to launch the high-profile attack. HideMyAss explains: Why arresting lulzsec won’t change anything « How the Media Gets it Wrong On Infosec. EDIT: Seems lulzsec proved me right now it really won’t matter if they are arrested, and they have completed their apparent objective of fueling the antisec movement. Federal law enforcement agencies from around the world have been working to arrest members of the group known as lulzsec.
Love them or hate them lulzsec has changed how the public views hackers and hacking. It has brought more attention to the cyber world and the cultures that develop there, and they have changed how some hackers operate Instead of quietly hacking smaller websites or targets of personal interest, they hack or attempt to hack government targets and post about it on social network and public chat rooms.
Lulzsec declared war on the US Government and others like them have answered the call to arms. As of late the governments actions in public have been disastrous and it has gotten to the point where people feel compelled to act to stop it. Like this: Like Loading... E-Crime unit arrest man. F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline. 6:16 p.m. | Updated Adding that the F.B.I. did not comment. 6:55 p.m. | Updated Adding comments from Curbed Network and Instapaper. 7:35 p.m. | Updated Adding comment from DigitalOne. 9:22 p.m. | Updated Adding additional comments from DigitalOne.
The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline. The raid happened at 1:15 a.m. at a hosting facility in Reston, Va., used by DigitalOne, which is based in Switzerland, the company said. In an e-mail to one of its clients on Tuesday afternoon, DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow, said: “This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not our company.
Mr. He wrote: “After F.B.I.’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work.” Mr. Mr. The raid also affected a server used by Instapaper, a popular service that saves articles for later reading. Snitches getting various stitches. 19-year-old suspected of being mastermind behind computer hacking group LulzSec arrested in UK : worldnews. Suspected LulzSec player arrested, in custody in London.
The day the authorities have been waiting for is finally here: A possible LulzSec leader has been arrested. He is 19-years-old and was arrested in Essex, England thanks to a cooperative effort between FBI and Scotland Yard. A spokesman on behalf of the Scotland Yard had the following to say: "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. The 19-year-old is currently in custody at a central London police station. This arrest comes just before the first major "Operation Anti-Security" information leak was about to take place. While the information gathered may now be safe, there are still others to potentially worry about.
Source: Sky News. AnonymouSabu: RIP Ryan. Narced by m_nerv... Snitches getting various stitches. LulzSec says it's outing two who may have led to arrest of an alleged hacker. The hacker group LulzSec posted the identities of two people it claimed had snitched on it and provided information that may have led to the arrest of a teen hacker in England. "These goons begged us for mercy after they apologized to us all night for leaking some of our affiliates' logs. There is no mercy on The Lulz Boat," the group said on PasteBin Tuesday. Along with their addresses, LulzSec posted their names, aliases, instant -message screen names, IP addresses and the phone number for one of them. LulzSec's main target was a man who goes by m_nerva on the Internet, and who the group claims posted a chat log of one of its internal conversations. "Remember this tweet, m_nerva, for I know you'll read it: your cold jail cell will be haunted with our endless laughter.
The group also published the name of another man, saying he was an associate of m_nerva. Attempts to reach the two men by phone and by instant messaging were unsuccessful. "RIP Ryan. LulzSec Hacker Says He’s Never Felt Safer. He’s part of a group that claims to be behind the recent hack attacks against the CIA, U.S. Senate, Sony, Fox and PBS. If caught, he could face years in prison. But when we chatted with a member of the notorious hacking collective Lulz Security last night, he said he’s not worried about a thing. On Tuesday, headlines blared that the “mastermind” behind the hacking group Lulz Security (or LulzSec for short) had been arrested in England, a 19-year-old named Ryan Cleary. Many assume that with Cleary behind bars and cooperating with police, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the members of the world’s most-wanted hacking group fall, too.
But in a Skype chat last night, a leading member of Lulz Security who goes by the alias “Topiary” says his group—whose core is composed of just a handful of hackers—feels no more threatened than when they burst onto the scene in May with hacks of Fox.com and PBS. Since May, LulzSec has embarked on a stunning spree of public hacks. “What’s changed?