The RIU Star Patrol hacking team took on responsibility for the DDoS that caused it Tumblr downtime earlier this week. The attack lasted approx two hours.
It seems hackers are planning a new large-scale DDoS attack that is likely to affect many more people users.
RIU Star Patrol announced in an interview uploaded to YouTube that they are considering launching PSN and Xbox Live networks on Christmas Day using tuned attacks DDoS similar to those they conducted against Tumblr.
DDoS attacks on the PSN and Xbox Live networks have become all the rage over Christmas, with both Sony and Microsoft promising to harden their systems protections to be able to block these attacks.
But to date, despite the protection, network users did not avoid short breaks in their game.
It goes without saying that the companies are preparing once again and we have to see how they can or can cope with the DDoS attacks this Christmas.
If you are wondering why these hackers want to throw gamers networks around the world, their answer is very simple.
"We do it because we can. We are not paid for what we do, "they said. For the attack on Tumblr, the hackers said they did it "for fun."
Christmas is one of the busiest days for gaming networks, especially for consoles such as PlayStation and Xbox.
It remains to be seen first whether the DDoS attacks as promised by hackers, and then whether Sony and Microsoft have actually stepped up their networks.
