It took Sony and Microsoft the new year of 2015 to fully recover from the massive DDoS attack launched by the Lizard Squad. Lizard Squad gained notoriety from the hack attack and was abused on gaming and tech forums by the gamers but it also gained publicity for its rent-a-DDoS machine, Lizard Stresser. Many industry watchers noted during that time that Lizard Squad was DDoSing PSN and Xbox Live servers to market their Lizard Stresser. Similarly, last year hackers took down Steam servers and left millions of Steam players unable to login, buy and play Steam games. Now a hacking group called PhantomSquad is getting prepared to again wreak havoc on gamers by DDoS famous gaming networks. https://twitter.com/PhantomNations/status/794218070583738368 Phantom Squad has already begun testing its DDoS capabilities by allegedly bringing down Steam in the first week of November and other services like CounterStrike, RainbowSix over the weekend. https://twitter.com/PhantomNations/status/799475233904328704 They have already tweeted (tweet deleted) that they will be launching a mega DDoS attack against a gaming server. They have not named the gaming servers they will target but the most probable candidates are Xbox, PlayStation Network, and Steam. All three, Steam, Microsoft and Sony have already experienced such huge DDoS attacks and should be looking to shore up their server defences against DDoS attacks.
