What tipped us off was a very cryptic email I got in the middle of the night.

They dawned on me that this was a legitimate malicious group, but I didn't really know who it was.

Hi and welcome to Savvy Reasons Malicious Life, besides, I'm Ran Lane. The name Lulsec is probably very familiar to listeners who were around in 2011 when this hacking group was at the peak of its nefarious activity.

The group was responsible for some high-profile attacks against corporations such as Fox News,

Sonnet Pictures and Bethesda Game Studios and D-D-D-D-D-Doss attacks

against various organizations, including the FBI's own Detroit office.

Lulsex leader was a hacker called Hecto Monsegoer,

aka Sabu, whose arrest we covered in a two-part series called The Streat4 Leeks.

As their name implies, Lulsec was known for trolling the victims,

defacing websites with internet memes,

playing the theme of the Loveboat on their website, and posting

silly ASCII art on Twitter.

This childish behavior might have fooled some people into thinking that Lalsack was mostly harmless. But as the story we're about

to hear will demonstrate, there were anything but. Karim Kijazzi is the CEO and founder of Provilion, a cyber intelligence company, and in 2011 he was the CEO of another cyber security company when he became a target for Lulsex shenanigans.

Karim spoke with Nate Nelson, our senior producer, about the not so funny experience he had to endure.

So what's it like to fight Lulcic? Have a listen.

What were you up to in 2011 prior to the events of the story we're about to talk about?

Yeah, so I had founded an surveillance in 2010 based on an effort that I was part of with a greater group of people pursuing

the Mariposa Botnet.

If everyone remembers that, who's listening now, pretty famous one.

And during that effort, we were able to figure out

that there was a really elegant way

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