List of hacker groups

This is a partial list of notable hacker groups.

• 414s, gained notoriety in the early 1980s as a group of friends and computer hackers who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Security Pacific Bank.^[1]
• FinnSec Security,a Finnish hackergroup responsible for year 2016 attacks against Parliament of Finland and Ministry of Defence in Finland websites.
• Anonymous, a group of hackers originating in 2003.
• Chaos Computer Club, is based in Germany and other German-speaking countries. Famous among older hackers
• Cicada 3301, a group of hackers and cryptographers that recruited from the public on three occasions between 2012 and 2014 by way of complex puzzles and hacking scavenger hunts.^[2][3][4][5]
• Croatian Revolution Hackers, a now defunct group of Croatian hackers credited with one of the largest attacks to have occurred in the Balkans.
• Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas.
• CyberVor is the moniker given to a group of Russian hackers responsible for perpetrating a major 2014 theft of internet credentials
• Decocidio#Ө is an anonymous, autonomous collective of hacktivists which is part of Earth First!, a radical environmental protest organisation, and adheres to Climate Justice Action
• DERP A hacker group that attacked several game sites in late 2013.
• Digital DawgPound (DDP)
• Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH)
• Global kOS was a grey hat (leaning black hat) computer hacker group active from 1996 through 2000.
• globalHell was a group of hackers, composed of about 60 individuals. The group disbanded in 1999, when 12 members were prosecuted for computer intrusion and 30 for lesser offences.
• Equation Group, suspected to be the offensive operations wing of the U.S. National Security Agency.
• Goatse Security (GoatSec) is a loose-knit, nine-person grey hat hacker group that specializes in uncovering security flaws.
• Hacking Team
• Hackweiser is an underground hacking group and hacking magazine founded in 1999.
• Honker Union is a group known for hacktivism, mainly present in Mainland China, whose members launched a series of attacks on websites in the United States, mostly government-related sites.
• L0pht, was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
• Level Seven was a hacking group during the mid to late 1990s. Eventually dispersing in early 2000 when their nominal leader "vent" was raided by the FBI on February 25, 2000.
• Lizard Squad, a hacking group known for targeting the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services.
• LulzSec, a group of hackers originating and disbanding in 2011 that claimed to hack "for the lulz". Currently broken up.
• Legion of Doom
• Mazafaka (hacker group)
• Masters of Deception, initial membership grew from meetings on Loop-Around Test Lines.
• milw0rm is a group of "hacktivists" best known for penetrating the computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai.
• NCPH is a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province.
• OurMine, a hacker group that has hacked celebrities and YouTuber's Twitter accounts for "security" reasons.
• P.H.I.R.M. The PHIRM was an early hacking group which was founded in the early 1980s.
• RedHack is a socialist hacker group based in Turkey, founded in 1997. They usually launch attacks against Turkish government's websites and leak secret documents of Turkish government.
• Syrian Electronic Army is a group that claims responsibility for defacing or otherwise compromising scores of websites that it contends spread news hostile to the Syrian government or fake news
• TeaMp0isoN is a group of black-hat computer hackers established in mid-2009
• TeslaTeam is a group of black-hat computer hackers from Serbia established 2010
• TESO, was a hacker group originating in Austria that was active primarily from 1998 to 2004
• The Unknowns is a group of white-hat hackers that exploited many high-profiled websites and became very active in 2012 when the group was founded and disbanded.
• UGNazi A hacking group best known for several attacks on US government sites.
• YIPL/TAP - Youth International Party Line or Technological Assistance Program, was an early phone phreak organization and publication created in the 1970s by activist Abbie Hoffman.
• Xbox Underground An international group responsible for hacking game developers, including Microsoft

See also

• List of hackers

References

1. Detroit Free Press. September 27, 1983. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "The internet mystery that has the world baffled". Daily Telegraph. 25 November 2013. Archived from the original on 25 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
3. Ernst, Douglas (November 26, 2013). "Secret society seeks world's brightest: Recruits navigate 'darknet' filled with terrorism, drugs". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
4. Bell, Chris. "Cicada 3301 update: the baffling internet mystery is back". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014.
5. Hern, Alex. "Cicada 3301: I tried the hardest puzzle on the internet and failed spectacularly". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014.