Jan 02, 2015 08:45 AM EST
The Lizard Squad Sells Its Newest DDoS Program: Lizard Stresser

The Lizard Squad, the notorious hacker collective that brought down the gaming servers of Sony and Microsoft, has release a distributed denial of service tool to all internet denizens. Called the Lizard Stresser, it is currently available to download for $5.99 per month.

The program is available in many subscription schemes ranging from $6 per month for 100 seconds use of the service or up to $130 for 30,000 seconds use. Lifetime subscription is also available although the Lizard Squad itself admitted that the program will only have a lifespan of around five years. According to the Lizard Squads website, interested buyers can pay a one-time fee of $30 to $500 depending in the kind of service they want to use. However, the website only supports bitcoin currency and the group has yet to announce whether they will support credit card services like Visa or Mastercard but they have confirmed that Paypal support will soon be available. The website also offer a referral service for prospected buyers, the referrer earns 10 percent of the total spending their referral made. Aside from the Lizard Stresser, the website also offers add on services to enhance their DDoS programs takedown power.

On an interview with the Washington Post one Lizard Squad member claimed their main objective in taking down Sony and Microsoft is merely for fun as well as revealing massive security loopholes within the companies' networks.

Aside from crashing the gaming servers of PlayStation Now and Xbox Live, the Lizard Squad also admitted that they provided Sony employees log in information to another hacker group the Guardians of Peace. The Guardians of Peace is the hacker group that infiltrated Sony Pictures network and leaked massive amounts of private internal documents along with sharing unreleased movies in to peer-to-peer networks. The hack was sort of a protest against the movie "The Interview", the group even went as far as threatening a 9/11-like attack on theater and cinemas that dare to screen the movie.

Nevertheless, Sony and Microsoft gaming networks are already back online. Sony Pictures released "The Interview" in selected independent theaters as well as video-on-demand. Finally, Lizard Squad has already found its newest target, the Tor network.

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