Lizard Squad's Stresser Is Mostly Powered By Hacked Home Routers

Lizard squad, the infamous hacker group who knocked Xbox live and PSN Offline has released a paid DDoS tool, lizard stresser, after the christmas eve. Now the security expert Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity says the Lizard stresser tool draws on Internet bandwidth from hacked home Internet routers around the globe that are protected by little more than factory-default usernames and passwords.

Krebs says LizardSquad’s botnet is not made entirely of home routers. It also makes use of commercial routers at universities and companies as well as other devices.

The malicious code that converts vulnerable systems into stresser bots not only turns routers into attack zombies, but also uses the infected system to scan the internet for more devices that use factory default settings.

His research states that, there is no reason the malware couldn’t spread to a wide range of devices powered by the Linux operating system, including desktop servers and Internet-connected cameras.

So the existence of such botnets is not only a threat to internet society but also remindes us to change our default router passwords.