Lizard Squad

Lizard Squad is a black hat hacking group responsible for many DDos attacks on the internet as well as hacking into many YouTuber’s accounts. Lizard Squad’s notoreity began noticed by the YouTube community in 2015-2016 after several YouTuber pages were compromised by Lizard Squad. Alongside the main group, an offshoot known as Poodle Corp was also active in 2015-2016 though this subgroup was shut down after the FBI arrested two 19 year olds for computer crimes.

Since their last hacking raid in November 2017 as well as the FBI cracking down and arresting members of the group, Lizard Squad as largely disappeared as a threat to YouTube content creators.

History
Lizard Squad was formed on August 18th, 2014 by seven black hat hackers. These hackers began operating DDoS for hire services. In December 2014, Lizard Squad launched DDoS attacks on Xbox Live, which caught the attention of many gaming YouTubers and tech journalists, most notably ReviewTechUSA. After months of reporting on their activities on Xbox Live, Lizard Squad agreed to talk to Rich on DramaAlert on May 19th, 2015. After hacing a debate, Lizard Squad would switch their focus on YouTube, but creating a subgroup called Poodle Corp.

Poodle Corp would go on to hack several major YouTube channels, the most notable one being LeafyIsHere in 2016. Lizard Squad began increasing their hacking raids onto YouTube channel amidst all the ongoing drama that was going on. However on October 2016, the Lizard Squad (and Poodle Corp) was dealt a major blow after two hackers were arrested on unrelated chatges not pertaining to YouTube channels.

After the FBI bust in late 2016, Lizard Squad’s attacks became less visible. However in November 2017, Lizard Squad once more terminated several major YouTube channels, including but not limited to iDubbbzTV, DramaAlert, MrRepzion, Team Coco, and Styxhexenhammer666. This would be the last major hacking attack on YouTube by tbe group.