World’s 10 most famous hacking groups who have had most success in recent times

Like the animals, hackers also hack their prey in groups. Sometimes these groups become famous for perceived good deeds like hacking ISIS websites done by Anonymous but most of the time these
hacker groups operate against the law.Some of the hacker groups have sincedisbanded after being in public eye. The prime example of infamous hackers group is Lizard Squad. They DDoSed the PlayStation and Xbox servers right during the time of Christmas weekend earning
them many villains.
Today we are listing top such 10 most notorious hackers of all time.
1. Lizard Squad
The DDoS attack on Facebook that lowered the popular social media network as well the cyber attacks on Malaysia Airlines website that directed visitors to a page
which read “404 – plane not found,” were carried out by the Lizard Squad. While Facebook refused to accept being hacked,Malaysia Airlines stated that their domain had been temporarily redirected elsewhere
and that they had not been hacked. Lizard Squad has also hacked Microsoft and Sony.
The intentions of Lizard Squad look dark and gloomy due to the diverse history of their work. They are not totally computer hackers as most of the hack they do is comedy. The group is responsible for a
high-profile hack of Microsoft Xbox Live and Sony’s Playstation Network. In August 2014, the group posted the ISIS flag on Sony’s servers and made other indirect references to the “cyber caliphate.” The group was arrested by the authorities in
the U.S. and England after the Xbox and Playstation hacks.
2. Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army claims to
target political opposition groups and claims to support the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It calls itself “a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria”.It becomes involved in the use of malware,phishing, defacement, spamming, and denial of service (DDoS) attacks with often
posting the Syrian flag on a victim’s
website. Some have even assumed as a fact that the group is connected with the Syrian state. The group have targeted the Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as technology companies and news
organizations. Their tone is “serious and political to ironic and humorous.”
3. LulzSec
After the HBGary Federal hack of 2011,
LulzSec – Lulz Security abbreviated –
formed as an Anonymous spinoff. It’s
slogan was “Laughing at your security
since 2011.” The group announced itself
with a hack against Fox.com, then Sony
Pictures in 2011. The group took the CIA
website offline.
LulzSec had become well known for
ridiculing its victims after an attack, which
made the analysts compare them to the
hacks to internet pranks. In June 2011, a
‘50 days of Lulz’ statement announced that
the group had fallen out. However, on July
18, the News Corporation was hacked by
the group, who had posted false news
about the death of Rupert Murdoch.
In 2012, the LulzSec members were
arrested by the FBI after the group’s
leader, Sabu, turned them in. Prosecutor
Sandip Patel said the group thought of
themselves as “latter-day pirates.”
4. Anonymous
“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We
do not forgive. We do not forgive…. Expect
us.”
Known most for its hacking and Guy
Fawkes masks, Anonymous is a
decentralized open online creation group.
Reports conceive that Anonymous is made
up of thousands of “hacktivists.” The group
has compromised religious, corporate and
government websites.
The group has declared war on Scientology
and hacked the Pentagon. In 2012’s
Operation Payback, they also attacked
MasterCard, Visa and PayPal for refusing
to process payments to WikiLeaks, which
in turn led WikiLeaks to choose the
cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Anonymous
supported Occupy Wall Street and hacked
the New York Stock Exchange website in
2011.
For being involved in Anonymous,
individuals have been arrested in the U.S.,
UK, Netherlands, Australia, Spain, and
Turkey.
5. The Level Seven Crew
Rumored to be encouraged by the seventh
level of hell from Dante’s Inferno, ‘the
violent’ level, this hacking group hacked 60
high profile computer systems (NASA, The
First American National Bank, Sheraton
Hotels) in 1999. They also hacked into the
US Embassy in China’s website. However,
this group broke up and stopped
functioning in 2000.
6. Network Crack Program Hacker
(NCPH) Group
It was alleged that the NCPH Group was
formed in China in 1994, whose leader Tan
Dailin was apparently working for the
Chinese army. It is believed that the
People’s Liberation Army was funded by
the NCPH. The group appears to be based
out of Zigon in Sichuan Province.
7. Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
The mission of the Chaos Computer Club is
to uncover the security flaws, which
basically does not only depend upon illegal
activities. It was founded in Berlin during
the early 1980s and is one of the largest
European hacking groups. The group made
its point after they used the Bildschirmtext
page to steal 134,000 Deutsch Marks from
a Hamburg bank, only to send the money
back after having completed its mission
the next day, which was to expose a
security flaw.
Early CCC member Andy Müller-Maguhn in
an interview with OWNI stated: “we needed
a lot of legal experts to advise us what we
could or could not hack, and to help us
distinguish between legal activities and
grey areas of legality”. The group’s kindly
approach has allowed the CCC to become
“an accepted and recognized entity
because it has worked to educate the
public about technology since the 1980s,”
Müller-Maguhn added. The group’s most
recent focus has been on the mass
surveillance complex, in order to fit in a
German hacker ring. CCC Member Falk
Garbsch stated:
There have to be consequences.
The work of intelligence services
has to be reviewed – as does
their right to exist. If necessary,
their aims and methods will have
to be redefined. …We have to
think about how these
[shared]data are processed and
where they can be allowed to
resurface. And this is not just
the challenge for 2015, but for
the next 10 years.
The group has strongly objected French
nuclear tests, made full use of COMP128
encryption algorithm of a GSM customer
card, stole money on live TV via
Microsoft’s ActiveX; and examined the
German federal government’s own
malware. The group’s press release on the
topic reads:
“The malware can not only
siphon away intimate data but
also offers a remote control or
backdoor functionality for
uploading and executing arbitrary
other programs. Significant
design and implementation flaws
make all of the functionality
available to anyone on the
internet.”
The CCC may have characteristics of a
Marxist, after being caught selling source
code from U.S. corporations and
governments to the Soviet Union’s secret
police KGB.
8. globalHell
globalHell was founded by street-gang
member Patrick Gregory. Data on 115
websites were reportedly destroyed by the
group charging millions in damages. In
order to get away from street gang life,
Gregory had turned to computer. His crew
of hackers behaved basically the same as
a street gang. “global hell will not die” was
reportedly written by the group on the
United States Army’s website. Gregory
confessed in court to causing $2.5 million
in hacking damages.
9. Iran’s Tarh Andishan
Looks like the Tarh Andishan wants to
control the world’s web-based systems.
Mostly based in Tehran, Iran, the group is
approximated to have 20 members. A
talented hacker group, Tarh Andishan looks
like grew out of a Stuxnet worm virus,
which Iran claimed the US and Israel had
created.
The Iranian government doubled-down on
its cyber warfare. The group uses self-
propagating software, backdoors, SQL
injection, systems, and other techniques.
The group is best known for one of the
attacks called “Operation Cleaver.” This
hacker group has apparently hacked
security systems and airline gates. Most
findings were not taken into consideration
due to the “grave risk to the physical
safety of the world” the group reportedly
poses, according to the report.
10. TeaMp0isoN:
A 16-year-old hacker with a pseudonym
TriCk started this group in 2010.
TeaMp0isoN hacked into Facebook, NATO,
the English Defense League, including
Tony Blair’s email account. The group
broke up and stopped functioning in 2012.
However, in 2015, the group rebranded
itself as a white-hat computer security
research group.
There are several other hacking groups
who may be more deadlier than the above.
We have listed only those hacker groups
who have consistently been able to be in
public eye due to their hacking exploits.