The FBI may be having the “last lulz” today after arresting five top LulzSec members based on reports from one of the group’s own.

Police in the U.S., Great Britain and Ireland took the men, alleged to be top members of Lulzsec, into custody Tuesday morning. The arrests were made based on intelligence handed to police by Hector Xavier Monsegur, or “Sabu,” who is considered to be the leader of LulzSec. Monsegur had been “secretly arrested” and turned into a “cooperating witness” by the FBI, according to a Fox News report.

“This is devastating to the organization,” an FBI official told FoxNews.com. “We’re chopping off the head of LulzSec.”

According to the report, the unemployed Monsegur ran Lulzsec’s operations from public housing on New York’s Lower East Side. He pleaded guilty last August to charges of computer-related crimes.

Monsegur’s sealed admissions are expected to be submitted as evidence against the other members of the organization arrested Tuesday. Top-level officials told Fox News that those admissions directly resulted in the arrests made Tuesday morning.

Monsegur’s Twitter account hasn’t been active since yesterday, but his last tweet came with a message in German saying, roughly translated, “The revolution I says I am, I was, I will be.”

The five arrested men include Ryan Ackroyd, or “Kayla;” Jake Davis, or “Topiary;” Darren Martyn, or “pwnsauce;” Donncha O’Cearrbhail, “palladium;” and Jeremy Hammond, or “Anarchaos.”

Four of the five men arrested were charged as members of a conspiracy in a New York federal court. Hammand, of Chicago, is also believed to be affiliated with Anonymous and will be charged separately from the others. He is considered the mastermind behind last December’s cyberattack on U.S.-based private security firm Stratfor. Anonymous took credit for taking approximately 5 million private emails from Stratfor and handing them to WikiLeaks, which is publishing them piecemeal.

LulzSec has targeted a wide variety of organizations, either for ideological reasons or just “for the lulz.” In other words, for the sake of amusement and thrill of hacking. It has gone after law enforcement agencies, AT&T, Sony, a British newspaper and the U.S. Navy. The group claimed to have “retired” in late June of last year, although a LulzSec-organized hack against The Sun newspaper occurred a month later.

The LulzSec group is considered to be indirectly connected with Anonymous, another international group of hackers and “hacktivists.”


http://mashable.com/2012/03/06/lulzsec-arrests/

Update: The court proceedings against Hector Xavier Monsegur, or “Sabu,” have been posted here http://www.scribd.com/doc/84137818/New-York-court-complaint-against-Sabu-AnonymouSabu

Slyr0x:

Update: The court proceedings against Hector Xavier Monsegur, or “Sabu,” have been posted here http://www.scribd.com/doc/84137818/New-York-court-complaint-against-Sabu-AnonymouSabu

That's one hell of a set of crimes on top one person's head.

What do you think the sentence will look like?

Lulzsec is not really anonymous. Moreover anonymous is no longer a group of people, it's an ideology, it's a cause. It's the common man's last hope against the clamping, restricting, discriminating, corrupting and authoritarian hold on the internet. It's a revolution that will not end as long as governments of the world keep playing the all-knowing, corrupt and intrusive 'big brother'.

The revolution shall be televised.

joudini:

Lulzsec is not really anonymous. Moreover anonymous is no longer a group of people, it's an ideology, it's a cause. It's the common man's last hope against the clamping, restricting, discriminating, corrupting and authoritarian hold on the internet. It's a revolution that will not end as long as governments of the world keep playing the all-knowing, corrupt and intrusive 'big brother'.

The revolution shall be televised.

lol.
Dont jock with america.
You can play with other countries but not the US!
As long as you hacked them,
its a mater of time before they
SWAT your residense.
Today, its virtually impossible to drop a bomb in the US soil.

Thatdave:

lol.
Dont jock with america.
You can play with other countries but not the US!
As long as you hacked them,
its a mater of time before they
SWAT your residense.

dude, monsegur was outted because he forgot to use the tor-socks, a human error coupled with other complex events. Others are being apprehended because monsegur SNITCHED.

At least thanks to wikileaks and anonymous, the whole world now knows what the americans are- a double lying opportunists sponsoring terrorism.

US military and corporate servers have been pawned so many times by 'china-based' IPs. China have also developed laser guided missiles and satellite target missiles. If there is one country the world is secretly afraid of now, its china.

Its virtually impossible to drop a bomb in the US? Dude, this got me laughing. Its very possible. And it can take different forms.

joudini:

Lulzsec is not really anonymous.

Well, you're right. .They got carried away with the attention given them by the media. .eventually derailing from the idealogy on which Anonymous was built on.

joudini:

dude, monsegur was outted because he forgot to use the tor-socks, a human error coupled with other complex events. Others are being apprehended because monsegur SNITCHED.

The fact that Sabu's been the one snitching all through is quite amazing! With the way dude talks tough on the internet, one would think he'd be the last to give in. .

@slyr0x, ur right. Monsegur (sabu) went down for like a month coupled with the way he started being overtly intrusive in matters that were not really under his operations.

Put 2 and 2, the other crews suspected. When other public members knew he started going expletive on twitter etc. He snitched so he could get a reduced charge. Nicca was about to go down for 100+yrs in jail.

Reminds me so much of what happened at shadowcrew between Max and Aragones etc.