{"id":84545,"date":"2015-12-15T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84545"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:49:48","slug":"script-kiddies-say-theyll-ruin-christmas-for-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/84545-script-kiddies-say-theyll-ruin-christmas-for-gamers","title":{"rendered":"Script kiddies say they&#8217;ll ruin Christmas for gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, it was revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/84395-as-many-as-77-000-steam-accounts-are-hacked-every-month.html\" target=\"_blank\">as many\u00a0as 77, 000 Steam accounts<\/a> are hacked every month. But what about PSN and Xbox Live?<\/p>\n<p>A group of hackers called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhantomSqaud\" target=\"_blank\">Phantom Squad<\/a>\u00a0have threatened to take down PSN and Xbox Live for a week during Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks mirroring those <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/70916-playstation-network-hacked-is-very-much-down.html\" target=\"_blank\">initiated by Lizard Squad last year<\/a>\u00a0which stopped gamers accessing PSN and Xbox Live<\/p>\n<p>Phantom Squad has already started attacking\u00a0PSN, Xbox Live\u00a0and <em>Grand Theft Auto 5<\/em>, and\u00a0they apparently took Reddit offline as well.<\/p>\n<p>Phantom Squad is now on the prowl for PSN and Xbox One this coming Christmas, as they revealed in a Tweet on the 9th of December:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are going to shut down Xbox live and PSN this year on Christmas. And we are going to keep them down for one week straight <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DramaAlert?src=hash\">#DramaAlert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phantom Squad (@PhantomSqaud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhantomSqaud\/status\/674391272728039426\">December 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the Lizard Squad attacks commenced last year they only ceased when internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom promised the Lizard Squad 3,000 encrypted Mega upload accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Dotcom has\u00a0now announced via Twitter that both Sony and Microsoft need to up their security game and upgrade their networks effectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nWarning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sony\">@Sony<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Microsoft\">@Microsoft<\/a>. You had 1 year to upgrade your networks. If Lizard Squad takes down PSN &amp; XBOX this Xmas, we&#8217;ll be pissed! RT!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimDotcom\/status\/676515075314749441\">December 14, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phantom Squad has also said that they&#8217;ll take down\u00a0Lizard Squad on Twitter if one of their tweets was retweeted 100 times.<\/p>\n<p>To prove their hacker worthiness Phantom Squad published this YouTube video as proof of their activities:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4_0LUFpZdQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Phantom Squad have revealed that their hacker group consists of five people and that they&#8217;re carrying out the hacks &#8220;because cybersecurity does not exist&#8221; for the likes of PSN and Xbox Live.<\/p>\n<p>To us, it is more of an irritation than anything and hammers on the same old moot point that is getting tiresome now.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about Phantom Squad and their declarations of war upon PSN and Xbox Live? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/hackers-threaten-bring-down-xbox-live-psn-christmas-again-2225702\" target=\"_blank\">International Business Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More Recent News<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Top 5 family games to get this Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84525-top-5-family-games-to-get-this-christmas.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top 5 family games to get this Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Get the PlayStation Christmas deal #4theplayers\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/84479-get-the-playstation-christmas-deal-4theplayers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Get the PlayStation Christmas deal #4theplayers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Get the PlayStation Christmas deal #4theplayers\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/84479-get-the-playstation-christmas-deal-4theplayers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Get the PlayStation Christmas deal #4theplayers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Lizard Squad is in town, and they&#8217;re after PSN and Xbox Live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":84553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[197,16729,1969,16731,1239,1853,131,89,10065],"class_list":["post-84545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-hack","tag-lizard-squad","tag-news-2","tag-phantom-squad","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-psn","tag-xbox-live","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84551,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84545\/revisions\/84551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}