LulzSec, the hacker group that’s been in the news recently because of their attacks against Fox, PBS, Sony and the FBI, has a quarrel with botnet and threat monitoring company Unveillance.
During the group's latest attack against Atlanta InfraGard chapter’s website, it obtained the plain text passwords of 180 individuals, all affiliated with the FBI-sponsored organization.
One of them was Karim Hijazi, CEO of Unveillance, who, according to LulzSec, happened to also use the same password for his email account.
The incident gave LulzSec access to Hijazi’s personal and business emails which contained sensitive details about his company’s dealings with the FBI and the U.S. government.
“[...]
We have uncovered an operation orchestrated by Unveillance and others to control and assess Libyan cyberspace through malicious means: the U.S. government is funding the CSFI to attack Libya's cyber infrastructure,” LulzSec wrote in their
original announcement.
Mr. Hijazi responded in a press release posted on his company’s website in which he claims that LulzSec members have threatened him for the past two weeks in order to obtain botnet intelligence that would boost their attack capabilities.
The Unveillance CEO says that his repeated refusal led to the attack against his company and himself and that LulzSec tried to extort money from him in exchange for their silence.
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