Team Poison gained a measure of notoriety recently when it operated by Research In Motion, the Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone. The hackers were upset that RIM agreed to cooperate with police to apprehend participants in the London riots.

The group has also been known to . It took down the LulzSec website, apparently because it believed members of Lulz were inferior hackers, or Script Kiddies.

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