LulzSec Successors Press On, Hitting Viacom, AZ

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/231000791

By Elizabeth Montalbano
InformationWeek
June 30, 2011

Less than a week after hactivist group LulzSec called it quits, a hacker 
group to which its members migrated mounted separate attacks on Viacom 
and Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group as well as on a previous LulzSec 
target, the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS).

Last Saturday, hacking group LulzSec, aka the Lulz Boat, announced 
online that it was ceasing operations, ending a 50-day hacking spree 
that included attacks on the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. 
Senate.

However, at the same time it called for others to carry on; advice its 
own members--who have joined forces with hackers from the Anonymous 
group to form a new group, #AntiSec--are taking.

#AntiSec has claimed responsibility for several new hacks, including 
another on the Arizona DPS, the second the department experienced in a 
week.

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