XBox live down for a few hours, Phantom Squad takes credit and threatens PSN might be next
A group of DDoSers going by the name Phantom Squad are on a mission to reiterate what Lizard Squad had done last year to Sony and Microsoft: take Xbox live and PSN down, to ruin every gamer’s Christmas.
Last year, Lizard Squad had stopped their attacks when MEGA founder Kim Dotcom had sent them 1 year vouchers for Prom access to MEGA.
Phantom Squad appeared recently on twitter (their account was quickly suspended by Twitter) and started claiming that Sony and Microsoft have done nothing to improve their respective Networks’ security since the Lizard Squad attacks last year.
“I get asked a lot on why we do this? Why do we take down PSN and Xbox Live? Because cyber security does not exist. PSN and Xbox don’t use that money to improve their security…. So until they open their eyes Xbox Live and PSN will remain vulnerable.”
Xbox Live was down/slow for a few hours last week, and Phantom Squad claimed responsibility for the attacks. When Xbox Live was back up, Phantom Squad replied “Lmao OF F***ING COURSE xbox live is back online we stopped the attacks”.
Phantom Squad’s various twitter accounts have been taken down one after the other on twitter, But the DDoS group had claimed they would take both Xbox Live and PSN down for Christmas. If that were to happen, it would *** off a large amount of gamers, especially since Microsoft and Sony have had one year to prepare for that kind of event.
The members of Lizard Squad, most of them teenagers, had been arrested earlier this year, and Brian Krebs (of KrebsOnSecurity) stated: “I hope it’s clear to the media that the Lizard Squad is not some sophisticated hacker group”.
So, what do you guys make of a group that is basically a copycat of a bunch of teenage DDoSers? Personally I’m baffled that mainstream media call this “hacking”.
“to ruin every gamer’s Christmas”
there are also some PC gamers.
yes i know wololo is mostly about consoles, but still
Fair point. I play quite a bit on PC myself 🙂
*proceeds to play console emulators on pc* hehe..
Yea, all these lame *** games today. It’s SNES and PSX for me.
And the online dependency: You can’t even get a friend to join you on the couch :/ Meanwhile you develop these weird-*** online personas and friendships of questionable social healthiness. Meh … I am don’t with that.
You, ladies and gentlemen of the PC, are winning!
we can still play offline games… this ddos-ing is just a waste of time
Looks like Phantom Squad twitter account got suspended. Does anyone know their new account name?
Are you f*cking kidding me here?
More script kiddies and push-overs!
It’s truly a joke. All of these script-kids arrive at the scene, and then claim that they’re 1337 hackers, when it reality, they’re all just a bunch of simpleminded idiots who are using a predefined DDOS automation script, with a few boxes of specific server-related IP addresses, and a bunch of friends to assist them. No “hacking” involved whatsoever, just experementation.
Bunch of punks , hope they all get raped in jail
This is my fetish
“DDoS group”, like you really need any knowledge of hacking to launch a DDoS attack. This is nothing more than a group of kids trying to get something for free because somebody sent them a DDoS tool. Honestly, remember when the PSN got hacked and people had financial data stolen? It was cheaper for Sony to give away free games to everyone who was hacked and settle potential lawsuits than it was for them to actually tighten up security. And the real kicker? Wait for it…
Lizard Squad has announced on Twitter that they intend to join these morons and take down both XBL and PSN “on Christmas day onwards”
This is so stupid,all it does is ruin everybodys time off to play their games.why dont they hack and make every available game for free for everybody to download?
Why not? Why not just break into sony’s financial accounts and give everyone free money? That would be a better idea if we are going this way.
^This
IMO that would be way more effective. If it would happen I’m sure Sony would have a solution in no time.
It almost forces one to go out and interact with people.
I don’t really care if they take down PSN and XBL, as long as they leave NN unaffected I’ll be happy. I don’t want to lose access to Splatoon, Tri Force Heroes or Mario Kart 8.
*Kim Dotcom
Oops, sorry for the typo!
PSN was “down for a few hours” during black friday without any DDoS attack from wanabee hackers. As far as I know even home purpose routers have some degree of security against DDoS. One would expect companies like SONY or Microsoft to be invulnerable to such tactics.
Good thing that all I need is Fallout 4, which doesn’t have online multiplayer. 😉
Honestly I approve of this, in general i dont like the idea of psn being down for a while, but if sony/Microsoft actually did improve the security of their networks to pc level as a result then gameplay would be better in the end(without the cheaters)
Your Telling Me That Those Multi-Million Dollar Corporations Can’t Have The Best Secure Servers?…That’s Why Bill Gates Jumped Ship STEP IT UP MICROSOFT AND SONY!!!
Judging by their writing, I do think it’s safe to assume that they are teenagers. As for their claims, how does DDoS prevention attacks would pressure any of them to improve “security” ? Freaking attention-seekers.
This is what I’m wondering. Sending a flood of requests to a server has nothing to do with that server’s security measures. Any server can be taken down via DDoS, as long as you know the IP or URL that the server is attached to.
SANT-HACK CLAWZ STRIKES AGAIN!!!
funny seems like they want to sound like theyre doing us a ‘favor’ by educating us on how crappy the security on xbox or psn is. what a load of *** surely theres another way of doing this without inconveniencing everyone who uses online services, well i know im gonna pre download any games i want to play from the psn
Improving security won’t stop DDoS attacks, sure you can try and filter the traffic and ease the attack with gateway protection, but all they are doing is overloading the gateways or servers with traffic so causes a denial of service attack. Pointless really!!
I’m a bit conflicted over this. It’s not right to ruin another persons experience, but these big proud greedy business’s will more than likely still not listen and still won’t do anything to stop these kinds of attacks after they subside.
I hope they all go to jail. Us gamers are not to be messed with.
I have precisely two opinions on this :-
1. It’ll ruin mostly the experience of kids getting that all-important Christmas console and not being able to get it set up, perhaps leading them and any nervous parents out there to believe the console is “broken” and pay the retailer an angry visit demanding their money back. So ruining the kids christmas, and the days after making some retailers lives a misery. Yeah, that’s totally 1337 ***, well done. Sure it affects adult gamers too but they’ll know what it is. Might ruin their gaming time around Christmas too, though.
2. I don’t really play games online or download them much either so it doesn’t affect me, but the first thing does tick me off a lot. It’s LAME. Script kiddies should ***, GTFO and grow up.
You Don’t See DDos Hacks Being Done On Banks Or Other Large Establishments!!! Tic Toc!!!!
As someone said earlier, this has nothing to do with security. It is simply blocking legit traffic from getting to the servers. If three large men stood outside a bank and wouldn’t allow customers inside to withdraw money, you wouldn’t say the bank’s vaults were insecure. You also wouldn’t say the bank needs to simply install new doors that were bigger than the guys so people could get in. You’d call the cops because some jerks were bullying people outside the bank..
It’s not the responsibility of Sony or MS to have loads of extra, expensive hardware that is only needed when some stupid children are being bullies. It’s silly to expect them to be overvigilant when the only time the hardware would be needed is in unusual circumstances such as during an attack like this. The only people they need to protect themselves from is the very same people claiming they are doing this to show flaws in “security”. If they weren’t doing this, there’d be no problem.
I mean, if you’d rather pay $150 for a year of PSN and XBox Live, go ahead, tell Soy and MS to beef up their servers. But i have a better idea. Tell those script kiddies to F off.