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PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the bad-childhoods dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The hacking crew was not kidding about their Christmas DDoS attacks on Xbox & PSN. This morning the group started warmup attacks on the EA network, taking it down for 3 hours. The attacks were severe enough to take down the network completely, and EA issued apologies on its Twitter account. Phantom Squad is now carrying out DDoS attacks on PSN. Users started reporting outages in small areas around the world.

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  1. Refresh my memory by Revek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whats the goal? Is to just be pricks?

    1. Re:Refresh my memory by Deadstick · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Same motivation as any other vandal or bully: losers wanting to impose their will, the only way they know how. Straight-up male-primate shit.

  2. Live attack map by guardiangod · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just look at Norse Attack Map

    Lots o NTPf traffic from China

    http://map.norsecorp.com/

  3. Go online to play an offline game by Calydor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it wasn't for validation servers for strictly offline games, eg. The Sims, this wouldn't be half as bad. It's when people don't get to play an offlline game because a server somewhere is down or messed up that things get ugly.

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