[Update] Yet another "Hacking Group" threatening to ruin christmas fun

[NovusBal]

UPDATE

 

Source: http://www.eteknix.com/phantom-squad-threatens-week-long-xbox-live-psn-attack-christmas/

 

Phantom Squad is claiming that it temporarily took down PSN earlier today, but this has not yet been confirmed:

 

PSN #Offline

— PhantomSquad (@PhantomLair) December 18, 2015

The hackers are also threatening to DDoS reddit, asking follower to vote for their preferred target:

 

We was wondering we didnt send attacks but, We want to ask what You want off next.

— PhantomSquad (@PhantomLair) December 18, 2015

 

So it seems they successfully managed to hit Xbox Live with a DDoS during this week, and are using this as a grounds to threaten or have people realize that they are not kidding around, and have genuine intent to ruin everyone's fun with an entire week of DDoS during the christmas holidays!

 

Not only that, but they are also making threats to hit other sites such as Reddit, for whatever reason they are encouraging people on social media to "vote" for what they want hit. This is despicable.

 

Aren't these fantastic people.

 

Although after all this nonsense on social media outlets, the twitter account used which was Phantom Squad has been suspended, but unfortunately right away been replaced by the new account, PhantomLair.

 

 

 

 

Source: http://www.eteknix.com/hacking-group-ring-christmas/

 

the group plans to switch the servers offline for a week and ruin people’s excitement to play games during their time off. This really is pathetic, and illustrates how petty human beings can be. I’m not entirely convinced if the group can perform this hack as it might just be trolls engaging in attention seeking. Although, if any kind of mass outage occurred, both Microsoft and Sony have to answer questions about their investment in online security. Hopefully, this isn’t a sign of things to come and only shows how bitter some people are in the modern world. If you’re frustrated with society, trying to ruin other people’s lives to make your own self-image improve is a flawed line of thinking.

 

 

Looks like it's christmas, and what more to start the seasons than by threats from "Hacker Groups" to take down online services from different platforms, in this case PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.

 

Should we believe this? Well, in some situations we shouldn't, it is the internet after all, it doesn't guarantee this is going to happen.

 

This threat has come from phantom squad this time, with this tweet:

 

 

Well, as usual, let's hope that they don't do this, my personal opinion on this is what the common individuals should be, that these people shouldn't really be doing this, or attempting to ruin this for other people, especially at a time of the year when people have some time off work in order to relax and play a few titles.

 

Not only to that point, realistically, majority of this is just DDoS. Which is becoming so much easier for individuals to do.

 

What is everyone elses opinions? Remember that time PlayStation Network went down for a few months? Although that won't happen in this situation (I hope), this is still something that just shouldn't still be happening.

 

 

 

*Keep the console flame wars out of this thread please

[Kobathor]

Meh.

 

You know how you should never with death upon most people? Well, I wish these people would die.

 

Like, be slowly lowered into a pit of fire.

 

With sharks swimming in the fire.

[TetraSky]

Eh, I game on PC, unless they can manage to bring Steam, Origin or the entire internet down, I really don't care. And even there... Steam support Offline play anyway.

[Sidiox]

Its pretty shitty if they do it, but I still consider it somewhat funny that all those kids who get consoles won't be able to play, but maybe thats just me. 

[zacRupnow]

Why? Also Hacking Group (as used to compare in your title) are the cunts that design insane ransomware and NSA contracts, these little assholes are like Lizzard Squad. Actually these ones are probably the remnants of Lizzard Squad.

[bcredeur97]

well then... Sorry kidos. Go play outside (You probably need to )

 

These people are some jerks though...

[NeatSquidYT]

I don't care unless they hack Steam or osu!. If they hacked osu!, my life would be fucking over.

[Admiral Naismith]

[skullrebell]

I mean as someone who plays xbox one, all the games i care about i have already gotten, so i can play them offline, in terms of the oh no, your going to attack xbox one, microsoft should be prepared for this, and if it goes down, then ill just boot up one of my 2 pcs and play something else.

[SurvivorNVL]

Just gonna leave this here 

[Sauron]

Maybe this generation they'll finally realize forcing every game publisher to funnel their traffic through a centralized service is idiotic.

[Fassive]

pff console peasants jkjk

it sucks but we cant really do anything about it

[refinedskillz]

Probably won't happen.

[GSTARR]

Just gonna leave this here 

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The topic was on PSN and XBL

[Decon]

wow more skiddies with Booters 

 

 

bass1137haxxorz 4 sure

[Praesi]

Ya, its hard to be a Peasant these Days. 

[UnknownEngineer]

Bunch of pathetic arseholes, I can't wait to read about them being arrested.

 

EDIT: And here people seem to only care that this is happening to consoles, ignoring the fact that a massive client base is going to suffer, and a large company is going to suffer.

[daniellearmouth]

Why DDoS attacks are a thing utterly baffles me.

I get how they work. What I don't get is the rationale of basically stopping a huge company from being able to do any sort of business for days, if not weeks.

What are they doing that's pissing the attackers off? Because I can't understand it, frankly.

 

I mean as someone who plays xbox one, all the games i care about i have already gotten, so i can play them offline, in terms of the oh no, your going to attack xbox one, microsoft should be prepared for this, and if it goes down, then ill just boot up one of my 2 pcs and play something else.

 

Preparations and DDoS attacks go hand in hand like oil and vinegar.

They don't.

[Enderman]

Just gonna leave this here 

lizard squad brought steam down too last time after they did psn and xbox

but it was only down for a few hours though

[Coaxialgamer]

Good thing  i use PC B)

[Coaxialgamer]

lizard squad brought steam down too last time after they did psn and xbox

but it was only down for a few hours though

(oh god , i never thought i would say this , but here i go ..)

 

 

Good thing we have origin and Uplay !

[NovusBal]

lizard squad brought steam down too last time after they did psn and xbox

but it was only down for a few hours though

 

Correct, it was down for a very short time, but the steam community still went crazy. 

.....That includes me...

 

"THE DEAL ENDS IN 3 MINUTES C'MON LET ME F****** BUY IT!"

[SurvivorNVL]

lizard squad brought steam down too last time after they did psn and xbox

but it was only down for a few hours though

Steam mitigated the issues far more efficiently than Sony and Microcash.

@GSTARR I believe this holds some degree of relevance.  I feel bad, honestly.  For all the people who end up getting consoles and not taking the time to look at steam.  I know many people who do so.  You would think for the level of entertainment these companies are supposed to bring - they'd have better protocol and capability of dealing with these massive attacks.  Especially when they're announced so publicly.

[Ren]

Reminder that there are large DDOS attacks happening in North America and Europe currently, that include networks besides PSN and XBL.

Yeah, you can stop the console circlejerk. It's a bigger problem than that.

[Overkilled]

Kind of stupid because now XBL and PSN know to prepare