Scotland Yard arrested suspected hacktivists

Scotland Yard arrested suspected hacktivists

Officials of the Cyber ​​Crime Unit of the London police have arrested two men on Friday who are suspected of involvement in attacks on computer systems. The suspects were linked to investigations into alleged "hacktivists" by Anonymous and LulzSec been arrested, Scotland Yard said on Friday in London. The arrest of 24 and 20 year old men is the result of joint investigations by the British police force with the FBI and other authorities who have focused in particular on the identity of the online nickname "Kayla". Two other suspects were arrested on Tuesday.

LulzSec had in the summer of 2011 caused numerous attacks on servers of different organizations furore. The victims included Sony, Nintendo, the game developer Bethesda, the U.S. broadcaster Fox and PBS, the security company and the FBI agent Unveillance company InfraGard. Also on the website of the U.S. Senate and the adult provider pron.com LulzSec was entered. The group also claimed to have caused a failure of the CIA's Web server. Hackers who were assigned to the Anonymous movement, among other things proceeded against NATO.

LulzSec is something like the naughty little brother by Anonymous. The hackers are different than understand that occur with increasing political motives Anonymous activists rather than guerrilla fun. After both currents were not very green at first, had allied themselves LulzSec and Anonymous in June. A little later, broke even on LulzSec to again shortly afterwards in connection with the bugging scandal at the Murdoch-owned newspaper "The News of the World" to be active.

The activists of Anonymous and LulzSec be pursued in different countries by the police. In July, the FBI had reported the arrest of 14 alleged anonymous hackers in the United States. Also in the Netherlands and Italy to beat the authorities. In early August, British authorities had arrested a suspected hacker LulzSec and then released him on bail. Another anonymous activist who had been arrested in early 2011, will make the process].