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Hackers Target Destiny and Call of Duty Servers with DDoS Attack

  • 22 September 2014
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This weekend was a bad one for players of these two games
By Gabriela Vatu on September 22nd, 2014 

 This past weekend, several servers for Destiny went down, both on PlayStation and Xbox, following a DDoS attack.
Players were booted from the servers in the middle of the game and an error message read “Cattle” on the disconnect screen.

The Lizard Squad hacker group claimed responsibility for sporadic DDoS attacks on the Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghost servers. They posted about their endeavors on their Twtiter account, bragging about taking down parts of both servers.

Access has since been restored and players can once more return to their games. Understandably, players had been quite upset about their game time being cut short, especially during a weekend, and many have threatened to ask for their money back, thinking that it was a technical issue from Bungie. Full Article    

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Now the gamers have to be quite upset the cyber dumbies are attacking their play time.
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By John Leyden, 23 Sep 2014
 
Hackers from the group Lizard Squad have reneged on their promise to quit earlier this month, apparently launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on major gaming industry websites.
After an attack on the Playstation Network in August, Lizard Squad has added two uber-popular shoot-'em-up games from Activision Blizzard to its list of victims. Servers running Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny were taken offline as a result of the blitz. Lizard Squad quickly claimed responsibility for the attacks (here and here).
 Cloud-based DDoS mitigation and web security firm Incapsula said it has never been easier for miscreants to launch attacks on gaming sites, adding that this means gaming sites need to build DDoS attack defences into their operational plan.
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/23/call_of_duty_lizard_squad_ddos/
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That's why destiny wasn't signing in... and weird name for a hacker group.
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