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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 cfalcon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The DDOS attacks will continue until network infrastructure prevents it.

      I think this group wants a name for themselves, and that may be the end of it, but who knows. The point isn't to ask why the rain falls- it's to wonder why we can't build a roof.

    2. Re:Refresh my memory by gweilo8888 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They're just trying to inflate their sense of self-importance, and calling them hackers as this article does helps accomplish that. Just like terrorists, the only way to stop these assholes is to stop giving them the spotlight (unless it is to mock them). Either call them what they are -- script kiddies -- or just don't talk about them at all. Even if they manage to DDOS your favorite game server, in the bigger picture they've accomplished nothing at all. Get up, stretch your legs, find something else to do and ignore them. It's what they deserve.

  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/