FBI Confirms Lizard Squad is Being Investigated for DDoS Attacks on PSN and Xbox Live

This had to happen. Afterwards giving ruining Christmas season for many gamers by acutely targeting and taking down two of the most cherished online video game distribution services and later on giving a hard time to a few video game giants by attacking their online servers, the notorious black lid hacker group most widely known as Lizard Squad is finally beingness investigated by the Federal Agency of Investigation for the attacks on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live that kept a larger amount of gamers from using their online services for extended periods of time.

FBI is Investigating the DDoS Attacks on PSN and Xbox Live That Were Reportedly Carried Out by Lizard Squad

Cadger Team, the notorious hacker collective which took responsibleness for attacking the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live and knocking then offline for millions of users beyond the globe on Christmas Solar day, has been finally brought in for investigation by Federal Bureau of Investigation. The group had previously besides claimed to have attacked and shut down online multiplayer servers for games like Destiny, Call of Duty and FIFA. Although there are currently no details well-nigh what is going on between the hacker group and FBI, a spokesperson for the agency told GamesBeat almost the investigation.

"The FBI is investigating the matter. Given the pending nature of the case, we cannot annotate further."

Lizard Team rose to notoriety after disrupting the normal services offered past several video game companies. The group carried out pocket-size attacks on two of the most important panel video game content distribution services and on multiplayer servers of some online games. After a few threats, the hacker collective reportedly assaulted PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on Christmas with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which swamps a target with junk data and traffic that most servers can't handle. Due to these attacks, both Sony and Microsoft's online servers faced frequent outages and stood unresponsive for millions of gamers beyond the globe. The companies potentially had to pay millions of dollars in lost transactions and to cover the damages.

DDoS attacks are considered to exist unsophisticated and tin be carried out using one of the many software available on the web. The attacks are only illegal is they event in a certain amount of impairment. With Sony and Microsoft losing truck load of coin due to not beingness able to offering video game content to users through their online stores when the services were out, Cadger Squad certainly can confront a criminal instance and can be held accountable for the attacks. The group itself seems to be least concerned well-nigh the FBI investigation, every bit it recently responded to reports on the web with the following tweet:

https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/549797327259860994

Lizard Squad is turning the publicity information technology is getting for the recent PlayStation Network and Xbox Live attacks into turn a profit by launching a DDoS-for-rent service where you can inquire the hacker collective to attack any site of your pick by paying it a sum of $6. This is not the merely profit that the group claimed for its activates, equally merely recently, Kim Dotcom, the possessor of well-known information transfer site chosen Mega, presented Lizard Squad 3,000 lifetime passes to Mega in return for no more attacks on the online gaming networks. The group is at present reportedly selling the passes for $30 each.