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LulzSec suspect ‘Topiary’ arrested in Shetland
Teenager thought to be a hacker and spokesman for LulzSec and Anonymous to be questioned in London
A teenager suspected of being one of the ringleaders of computer hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in the remote Shetland Islands, north of the Scottish mainland and has been taken to London for questioning.
The 18-year-old is said to go by the name 'Topiary' when online. That is the same alias used by a spokesman for LulzSec and another 'hacktivist' group Anonymous.
The Metropolitan police e-crime unit said he was arrested as part of a "pre-planned intelligence-led operation". His arrest came as another address in Lincolnshire was searched and a 17-year-old was interviewed by police. The teenager from Shetland is to be interviewed in London today.
LulzSec has carried out a number of attacks on sites in recent months. Last week the organisation targeted the website of the Sun and redirected visitors to a fake story claiming that Rupert Murdoch had died. It claimed the media mogul had taken poison before "stumbling into his famous topiary garden".
The Guardian reports that the LulzSec Twitter feed, thought to be administered by Topiary and which has almost 350,000 followers, fell silent on Wednesday. Topiary's own Twitter feed was wiped last week and now contains only one message that reads: "You cannot arrest an idea."
LulzSec is thought to be behind attacks on the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, the US Congress, Sony and, this week, PayPal.
In June, 19-year-old Ryan Cleary was arrested in connection with several hacks, and his lawyer said he was cooperating with police. Soon afterwards LulzSec announced it was to disband, only for other attacks to materialise. Cleary has been charged with five counts of hacking. ·
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LuLsec/Anony have shown there is little more to their arsenal then SQL injection and DDoS attacks. However, they have also shown to have the right mentality to become effective trainee's for the future of national Cyber-Defence.Teaching the teenagers how to truely discover and exploit new bugs will educate them, while cultivating their mentality and dedication to pursuing a chosen target with an offensive-attack mentality provides us with the perfect combination. Rather than publicly arresting, why not guide them and use them in the real world. We are seeing terrorism moving into the wires, we will need new defences.