LizardSquad’s DDoS tool is mostly powered by hacked home routers
Jan09
on January 9, 2015
at 4:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, botnet, ddos, Insider, Investigations, KrebsOnSecurity, LizardSquad, PSN, xbox live
LizardSquad, the group who knocked Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network offline over Christmas, subsequently revealed that their motive was to publicise their ‘booter’ site, designed to allow paying customers to knock sites offline. Now Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity, who has been investigating the group for some time and has been personally targeted by them, says the DDoS tool draws most of its bandwidth from hacked routers in homes around the world. The error made by the owners of those routers? Failing to change the factory-default usernames and passwords. Krebs says LizardSquad’s botnet is not totally reliant on home routers. It also makes use…
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