{"id":5781,"date":"2015-01-02T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2015-01-02T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:31:11","slug":"paid-lizard-squad-ddos-service-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"Paid Lizard Squad DDoS Service is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears the &#8216;Lizard Squad&#8217; DDoS &#8216;service&#8217; is already out of business. The sleazy service was relatively new and caused outrage on the Internet due to its, uh, illegal activity: basically it would bombard websites until they could no longer reply to other requests (http), i.e.\u00a0people would get a &#8216;page cannot be displayed&#8217; type of message during said bombardment.<\/p>\n<p>DDoS is not new at all, but\u00a0the Lizard Losers actually set up a\u00a0business via Paypal or Bitcoin, where\u00a0one could pay them online for periodic outages of chosen websites. So, they monetized illegal internet activity. They also set up an impressive website. And, to add insult to injury, there is a YouTube video demo of sorts. Check it at the &#8216;Engadget&#8217; link below. It&#8217;s very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Their service \u00a0did not last too long, but look for more of this in the coming months or years &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/12\/31\/lizard-squads-takedown-for-hire-service-quickly-disappears\/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Engadget&amp;?ncid=rss_full&amp;utm_content=gravity_organic_sitefeed&amp;cps=gravity_1677_1632165202091575512\">Engadget Article here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears the &#8216;Lizard Squad&#8217; DDoS &#8216;service&#8217; is already out of business. The sleazy service was relatively new and caused outrage on the Internet due to its, uh, illegal activity: basically it would bombard websites until they could no longer reply to other requests (http), i.e.\u00a0people would get a &#8216;page cannot be displayed&#8217; type of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=5781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paid Lizard Squad DDoS Service is Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-hackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}