Paid DDoS Attack Service By Lizard Squad Goes Offline

The hackers collective, Lizard Squad Hackers Who Shutdown PSN & Xbox Live Are Now Gunning For Tor for disrupting gaming console online services Xbox Live and PlayStation Network debuted a DDoS attack-for-hire service that quickly went offline within days of launch. The service titled Lizard Stressor was launched on 30th of December and it went offline seven hours ago. The purpose of the website was simple; you log-in to the website and ask the group to perform a DDoS attack on any website of your choice by paying an amount that varied upon the duration of attack. Prices started at $2.99 for 100 seconds and went up to $69.99 for 30,000 seconds (just above 8 hours). The website was even offering bulk-buy options with discounted rates. Users were asked to make payments with anonymous cryptocurrency BitCoin and the group had promised to add PayPal payment option soon.



While the group claims that the site is suffering downtime #-Link-Snipped-#, security analysts are thinking whether it’s the end of the line for these hackers. Two members of the collective were recently arrested and more could be facing criminal charges as launching DDoS attack on any website in the United States is in violation Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. If you are thinking of playing a prank on some website by signing up for this service if it comes back online, there can be some serious privacy issues for you too. #-Link-Snipped-# points out that security researcher Eric Zhang has discovered a bug in the website that can allow any individual to access details of all users who have signed up for the service. Lizardstresser.su User Enumeration / Eric Zhang [Xeroday] that the website is poorly coded and its design is a rip-off of a similar DDoS attack-for-hire service called TitaniumStressor.

For further reading, you can refer to these links: Security researcher Brian Krebs’s Who’s in the Lizard Squad? – Krebs on Security on Lizard Squad, Eric Zhang’s Lizardstresser.su User Enumeration / Eric Zhang [Xeroday] bugs on Lizard Stressor website and its coverage on Lizard Squad's Xbox Live, PSN attacks were a 'marketing scheme' for new DDoS service - The Daily Dot.