Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor

Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by abritishguy on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:36PM (#8800263)

They appear to be using Google Compute instances (based upon the IP addresses) to create TOR relays but since they are not exit nodes I'm not really sure what they are hoping to achieve.

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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by abqio on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:39PM (#8800274)

They're set up to be exit nodes, they just don't have the exit flag yet.

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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by mperret on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:56PM (#8800334)

Quite a few seem to have the exit flag now. Only glanced through the first 500 or so, but it looked to be about 50 which had the exit flag

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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by ChristianBundy on Friday December 26, 2014 @04:32PM (#8800487)

How is that possible? I was under the impression that it took a long time to be a real exit node.

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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by AlyssaRowan on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:27PM (#8800706)

No stable flags. No guard flags, either.

Google will probably shut them down quicker than the consensus gives them those. They are tiny; it's an attempted Sybil, but it's worse than GCHQ's one that used Amazon nodes.

Edit: Down.

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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by abritishguy on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:15PM (#8800652)

And without that flag they might as well not be exit nodes - it takes 88 days to be approved.

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