Summary of famous hacker groups in the world [Phần 1]

Hacker groups are one of the factors that make up the richness of the Internet. In 1995, the movie Hackers was released, creating a stereotype about Hacker culture. However, some hacking groups are not young, active youths or lone wolves. In fact, some groups are state-funded, and can do real damage.

In this article, AnonyViet summarizes the most famous hacker group in the world that has resonated and influenced many generations to this day.

Anonymous – the longest known anonymous hacker group

Anonymous Probably the most iconic and famous hacker group on this list. They are a decentralized hacker group that mainly knows about DDoS network attacks. These attacks are often launched against political figures, foreign governments and religious groups.

Anonymous is a worldwide hacker organization. First appearing in 2008, Anonymous takes their name after the anonymous name created by the internet and their wishes remain unknown. As a result, group members often don’t even know each other off the internet. Usually known for launching coordinated attacks. These attacks can be against corporations, individuals and even government organizations and agencies. Their motive is hacking to bring about political or social change.

Most members like Completely anonymous. Therefore they do not publicly announce their participation in the group. However, some members can be distinguished by the use of masks Guy Fawkes popular. This is usually an attempt to conceal their identity from the public.

There is no formal membership, hierarchy or structure in the group. Members join Anonymous because the group represents and fights for what the attacker believes in. “Hacker ethics” as they are called, includes unrestricted access to information and censorship. In addition, Anonymous also fights for human rights and freedom of speech. Many of its members are also digital pirates who believe that software and information should be freely distributed.

Chaos Computer Club

Since its establishment in 1981, Chaos Computer Club has been recognized as the largest and most influential Hacker network in Europe, describing itself as “a galactic community of life forms, regardless of age, sex, race or social orientation, striving across borders for the freedom of information….”

Chaos Computer Club became world famous in 1985 when they hacked 134,000 DM (German money) from a bank in Hamburg via the German computer network Bildschirmtext (the precursor to the online banking system). The money was transferred back the next day in front of the press, to draw attention to the system’s major security flaws.

Since then, Chaos Computer Club led a series of iconic campaigns exposing computer security issues. They were involved in the first cyber-espionage case that caused an international stir in 1989, the first to clone a GSM card, and a few years ago hacked Apple’s iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor within two days of its launch. release.

The exhibition at BOM brings together Chaos Computer Club members from Berlin and Birmingham to develop a series of works on cybersecurity and surveillance. Berlin-based hacker Starbug has teamed up with Birmingham-based artists Lily Wales and Leon Trimble to create installations that expose personal data vulnerable to everyday tech product use. like ours.

Lizard Squad

Lizard Squad is a notorious black hat hacker group that became infamous after attacking the Xbox and Playstation networks in 2014. Anonymous group of hackers targeted a number of configurable video game websites and services. high since they announced their first attack in August 2014. Lizard Squad claims to have hacked nude photos of Taylor Swift, mocked MH370 in an attack on Malaysia Airlines website, taken down Facebook, Tinder and Instagram.

This famous group of hackers also hacked into Malaysia Airlines and Facebook systems. Lizard Squad mainly targets game servers with DDoS attacks. Lizard Squad’s famous DDOS attacks such as: League of Legends, Destine, Play Station Networks and Xbox Live. In addition, they claim to have disrupted the Internet in North Korea with a DDOS attack.

The members of the Lizard Squad are between the ages of 15 and 24 and have been arrested by British and Australian police.

Tailored Access Operations – NSA

Tailored Access Operations (TAO) is an NSA hacker group with the backing of the US government. if do not have Edward Snowden, we probably wouldn’t know about the US government’s eavesdropping activity on other countries. TAO has some of the best capabilities in the world in terms of collecting about all US and foreign phone data. After being revealed, more and more details about them are available.

This is a top secret attack unit of the US National Security Agency that has infiltrated computers around the world and broke into the most difficult data targets. According to the document they have 600 employees in the main NSA complex in Fort Mead, Maryland. There are also branches in Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Denver. They have sophisticated unique abilities that few people think of.

TAO is an elite hacker group that specializes in anonymous access to intelligence targets that have proven to be the most difficult to penetrate through professional espionage techniques, and describes its overall mission as “taking over target”.

Take, for example, WARRIOR PRIDE. It’s software for iPhone and Android that can remotely turn on the phone, unmute the phone’s microphone, and listen and track using its own geolocation and anti-spoofing and stealth programming.

Elderwood group and 20 other Chinese APT groups

Elderwood Group, Axiom, Unit 61398, Comment Crew, Putter Panda, Hidden Lynx… are famous Chinese hacker groups that pioneered the state-sponsored hacking group and they have continued to perfect this method. Often, it is difficult to tell if the Chinese government is pulling the strings, funding or even affiliated with a group. But the list of hacks and zero-day exploits of these groups is quite extensive.

One of the more famous attacks occurred in 2010 as “Operation Aurora”. Part of what we know about Operation Aurora is because Google conducted it and announced it was hacked. Common targets include the defense industry, human rights campaigns and supply chain companies. Elderwood group is a general term for all related groups.

Subgroups include Hidden Lynx (targeted by the defense industry and Japanese users), Linfo (manufacturing company), Sakurel (aerospace company) and Vidgrab (dissidents ​in Uyghur). Such a well-funded, advanced, coordinated attack was all backed by the Chinese government from behind.

We are not surprised when recently the Chinese embassy in the US was ordered to close.