LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Last year on Christmas, the LizardSquad hacking group took down PSN and Xbox Live for many hours via DDoS attacks. This year another group, called Phantom Squad, is planning the same thing. The group has been launching small test attacks on PSN, Xbox, Reddit, SWOTR, and other game servers over the past few days.

Comments

Why?

[JimMcc]

I don't understand why? Seriously, I don't get it.

Is this just the modern day equivalent of throwing a rock through a shop window in the middle of the night; an act perpetrated by frightened little children acting out?

Re:Why?

[Lumpy]

Pissy little 13 year olds that are angry that mommy did not buy them an Xbox one yet.

that is all these groups are.

Re:Why?

[Zontar The Mindless]

It's time you learnt a few facts, a couple of which I'll share with you here:

Yule and Saturnalia predate Christianity by a considerable margin.

Some Christian denominations have even at various times discouraged or even banned their members from celebrating Christmas on the grounds of its pagan origins.

(And if you ask me, people who live in their mothers' basements and only poke their heads out to criticise others on false premises are stupid.)

It could be worse...

[DaHat]

It could be North Korea threatening war again.

Their basic argumetn

[rossz]

They say they do it "because we can". They argue if you make it in any way possible for them to DDoS you, you deserve it. There is a limit to how much of an attack you can stop, and even the best planned network is going to go down if you hit it hard enough.

Bunch of pathetic losers who get off on pirated porn and ruining christmas for kids.

well-known terrorist technique

[turkeydance]

set up a situation, and see what fixes it. then, for the real attack, allow for the previous fix.

Re:suddenly, slashdot loves Sony?

[captjc]

No, you seem to be missing the subtle nuance of the situation. Sony and Microsoft as companies can both fuck-off and die. However, taking down the online game servers isn't attacking either of them as a company, it is attacking the people who bought their products and wanted to play on what could be their only day off.

I know that I only get off on Christmas Day and New Years Day. I don't have school holidays where I can get a whole week or two off. So if I get my one chance to sit down and play and the servers are down, I'm not going to blame Sony or Microsoft (OK, I probably will). I am going to blame these assholes who took down the servers because reasons.

Guess you old UID's don't understand

[Nyder]

I see a lot of people with low UID asking why, and insulting these script kiddies for what they are planning on doing, giving exactly the sort of reaction these script kiddies are looking for. Haven't you learned by now? When peeps going trolling, you go ignoring. Never feed the trolls. Yet all I see is crying and whining and insults getting flung around. You keep feeding the trolls. You are giving them the reaction they are looking for, and they haven't done shit yet.

Guess what? If they do DDOS the various game networks, so fucking what? You going to cry in front of your kids about how these script kiddies are ruining Xmas for everyone? You going to throw a temper tantrum like a kid? Grow the fuck up. So what if they want to ruin Xmas for people who get new video games? Why are you letting them ruin your xmas? And why you giving them what they want, attention?

If you are smart (which by posts I am guessing you aren't), you will either give your kids the video games early so they can get them activated (so lame you need to activate games online before you can play them) so they can at least play single player mode if the networks go down. Or just tell your kids to enjoy the holidays doing something other then play video games.

Whatever you do, quit getting mad at the script kiddies, quit insulting them, quit asking fucking why and just accept that giving attention to trolls just makes them do other things for attention. Ignore them.

Re:Guess you old UID's don't understand

[Ash-Fox]

Honestly, my question is, why aren't these console firms using technologies like anycasting to minimize attacks, reduce server latency and redistribute load? This isn't exactly a new technology, I remember doing anycasting configurations over a decade ago that dealt with problems like this.

Users are paying for xbox live, PSN+ etc. they really should be at least getting something on par to the.. well.. relatively free online multi-player services. Sadly, these users are poorly informed and their poor purchasing habits seem to outweigh those of us that have sense.

Re:Guess you old UID's don't understand

[donaldm]

Actually a DOoS is only going to affect on-line multi-player and digital downloads or people who really, really need to update their console. If connection is slow well how about a single player game or actually go and talk to your family and friends.

Re:suddenly, slashdot loves Sony?

[Ash-Fox]

That's funny - when this happened, the prevailing sentiment on slashdot was to call for the utter destruction of Sony as a company.

You make it sound like it was yesterday, it was ten years ago.. If the best argument you've got is something from ten years ago, you're not going to be able sway many people.