Many obervers have been asking questions on the heels of the DDoS attacks that brought down XBox Live and the PlayStation network on Christmas Day.
Today, Brian Krebs drawn an unconventional answer" "Routers". Krebs looked into Lizard squad and found mucj of the group's DDoS capabilities came from home routers that had been compromised remotely.
Using a recently discovered malware variant, Lizard Squad was able to turn common household routers into so-called "stresser" tools, which flooded the networks with bogus traffic, ultimately making them unavailable for legitimate gamers.Routers are a notoriously easy target for malware attacks, thanks to a slow-to-nonexistent patch schedule and general neglect.
A number of Lizard Squad members have already been arrested, but many of the vulnerabilities they exploited have yet to be addressed. Until they are, it will be easy for groups like Lizard Squad to mount cheap and destructive DDoS attacks, and hard for networks to defend themselves.
