Top 10 Hackers Groups In The World!


What's up? Hackers and pen-testers Anonymous here back again with another useful tutorial. Today in this tutorial I will introduce to you the top 10 hacker group in the world.


 Hacking groups are a staple of the cybersecurity culture. Some hacking groups aren't youthful, energetic teenagers or lone wolves. In fact, some groups are state-sponsored and can do real damage. there are lots of hacking groups on the earth but, in this article, I will introduce to you the top 10 hacker group in the world. 










1. ANONYMOUS: Anonymous is an international hacking group that declared a cyberwar against ISIS in the wake of deadly attacks in Paris on November 13. The group established in 2003 comprises people of various religions and faith who are hackers, data miners, spies. They are even referred to as digital 'Robin hoods'


2. Syrian Electronic Army: The hacking group has been active since 2011, but has upped the ante in recent months. The group's website posts the latest details of its hacks in English and Arabic, accompanied by screengrabs of hacked Twitter accounts and video clips from media outlets reporting the group's activity. It seems to relish in the media attention it attracts.


3. Tarh Andishan: It is believed that Tarh Andishan; a group comprising of 20 highly skilled individuals was formed in Iran as a response to the Stuxnet worm attack which Iran attributed to a joint US-Israel operation. 

With Operation Cleaver, the group announced its arrival on the global cybersecurity scene as a “force to be reckoned with”. Operation Cleaver targeted critical infrastructure including military installations, oil & gas industry, energy & utilities, airports, transportation, hospitals etc in 16 countries.

 It is said that the group successfully compromised US Navy servers. The techniques used by the group include SQL injection, automated worm-like propagation systems, back doors etc.



4. Lizard Squad: Lizard Squad is a Black Hat Hacking group. Mainly involved in targeting gaming, bank websites. However, the group gained wide fame after it hacked Malaysian Airlines websites and defaced them with the message "404-Plane Not Found" an apparent reference to their lost flight MH370 with 239 people on board.

Some members of the group were arrested in the US and UK following their hacking into Sony and X-Box servers.



5. Bureau 121:  Bureau 121 Created in 1998, Bureau 121 is North Korea’s cyberwarfare agency which is a part of the General Bureau of Reconnaissance of North Korea’s military. Created in 1998, Bureau 121 is North Korea’s cyber warfare agency which is a part of the General Bureau of Reconnaissance of North Korea’s military. 



6. TeaMposioN:  A computer security research group comprising of 3-5 members, the group gained notoriety in 2011-2012 for their black hacking activities against NASA, United Nations, NATO and Facebook, Daily Mail website and English Defence League which included the account of former U.K Prime Minister Tony Blair. 


The group was started in 2010 by a 16-year-old who went by the name of ‘TriCk’. The group disbanded in 2012 following the arrests of its founder ‘TriCk’ and the other core member who went by the pseudonym ‘MLT’’. In 2015 the group has reportedly resurfaced as a ‘White Hat’ security research group.


7. The Network Crack Program Hacker Group (NHCP Group): the most prominent Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province. It was founded in 1994 and is believed to be funded by the People’s Liberation Army of China. 


The founder of the group Tan Dailin is supposedly a member of the People’s Liberation Army. It came into prominence after it hacked into 40% of the hacker association websites in China.


8. TAO or Tailored Access Operations: A cyber-warfare unit of the National Security Agency of the United States of America. The group is largely involved in intelligence gathering since 1998. The primary task of TAO is what NSA terms as “Computer Network Exploitation”.


 It involves intelligence gathering by infiltrating into the computer systems used by foreign entities. As per the document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the group has software templates that allow it to break into commonly used hardware like routers, switches and firewalls from multiple product vendor lines. According to The Washington Post, TAO engineers prefer to tap networks instead of isolated computers because of the large number of devices available on a single network.




9. LulzSec:  the group derives its name from the term “Lulz” which means fun or laughter derived at another’s expense. As per the Group, their motto is “The world’s leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense”, “Laughing at your security since 2011”.

 The group was founded in 2011 and came to prominence when they hacked the website of Fox News. It was followed by the hacking of the website of Sony Pictures and the CIA. In 2012 the group had to close down due to the arrest of its members by the FBI to which information was strangely provided by the group’s leader “Sabu”.


10. GlobalHell: It was a hacking group was founded by Patrick Gregory who went by the name of most hated. The group was composed of about 60 members. 

GlobalHell was notorious for hacking around 115 websites and destroying their data causing millions of dollars worth of damage to the organisations. One of the group members Chad Davis hacked into the Army computer at Pentagon and defaced the Army Internet homepage with the message “Global Hell is alive. Global Hell will not die“. In 1999 it got disbanded when 12 members were prosecuted for computer intrusion and 30 for other lesser offences.