Who Are These UGNazi Hackers?

A group of malicious hackers calling themselves UGNazi claims it took down Twitter late last week for about 40 minutes. Despite reports confirming the attack, Twitter denied that UGNazi was responsible for the outage, calling it a “cascading bug.” Who is UGNazi?

When it comes to tracking the “hacktivist” types, the best way to get an overview of who they are and what they do is to visit their Twitter accounts. For UGNazi, its Twitter activity shows a group of at least four people that are interested in using DDoS attacks to take down prominent websites and to hack into other sites to deface them.