Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, a group of DDoS attackers who caused havoc by attacking tech giants, gaming servers, and small businesses back in 2014. Apparently, the people who created Lizard Squad were also behind creating PoodleCorp group who took things to a whole new level by hacking YouTube accounts of popular celebrities and conducting DDoS against gaming giants.

Attacks and scams

In 2016, two men, Zachary Buchta, 20 (founding member of the group) from Maryland, United States and Bradley Jan Willem van Rooy, 19 from the Netherlands were arrested and charged by the United States Department of Justice with credit card theft, compromising protected computers and operating DDoS services using a DDoS tool “LizardStresser.”

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