Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Hacker squad passed FBI hackers PSN and Xbox Live

Information about the members of the hacker group Lizard Squad, which in recent months disabling services PlayStation Network, Xbox Live servers and popular games, was transferred to the FBI and some of them have reportedly been arrested.This was said in Twitter hackers Finest Squad, who announced the hunt for attackers.

Lizard Squad now and then reports of attacks from August 2014. First, hackers attacked the network services PlayStation Network and Xbox Live , servers Battle.net, League of Legend and Path of Exile. Then they tweeted about American Airlines explosives on the plane, which flew the head of Sony Online Entertainment John Smedley. Board changed course and landed to check the nearest airport. September 20 group arranged DDoS-attacks on servers shooters Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghosts . A week later Lizard Squad again attacked on the servers of both games, and in addition - to the sites of Electronic Arts. Not all failures fix quickly: the next morning, some players still could not go to Destiny. In December Lizard Squad again took over Xbox Live and PSN. They broke services for a few hours, and promised that the incident - this is just a small demonstration of what is to come for Christmas.
For burglars took another hacker group Finest Squad. Since the beginning of December, she began tracking IP-addresses of intruders and their communication channels. Soon, she reported that collected the necessary information and transmits it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In addition, it is made to block twitter Lizard Squad, they chat in IRC, as well as written Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft about vulnerabilities on PSN and Xbox Live, which attackers could use.