Current Events > Japanese game: Final Fantasy XIV repeatedly hit by major aggressive cyberattacks

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Servers of Square Enix Co's popular online game "Final Fantasy XIV" have been hit by a series of cyberattacks since early October, preventing some users from accessing the service, its publisher said Thursday.

The distributed denial of service attacks, in which multiple hacked computers are used to flood the target system, were carried out to an "unprecedented extent" against data centers in Japan, North America and Europe, Square Enix said.

The identities of the attackers are not yet known, although information security experts suspect links to cheap online services that carry out so-called DDoS attacks.

Two major attacks in early October and late October prevented game players from logging into the service or cut off their connections for up to 20 hours, according to the company.

Square Enix has taken steps against the attacks, but the servers were attacked again Tuesday night, disrupting the service for some 50 minutes.

FFXIV had previously been subjected to DDoS attacks. A study by a U.S. internet company has showed that some 80 percent of DDoS attacks worldwide are targeted at game services.

"The attacks may have been carried out by people who commit the offense for pleasure, hold a grudge against the company or seek money," said Nobuhiro Tsuji, an information security expert.

"The attacks have extended over a long period, and while it is costly, there is no choice but to beef up countermeasures," the expert at SoftBank Technology Corp said.

In 2014, a high school student in Kumamoto, southwest Japan, was found to have used an online DDoS attack service to disrupt a different game company's operations after he became frustrated with the way the game services were managed. He was referred to prosecutors the same year.

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Online-game-'Final-Fantasy-XIV'-hit-by-major-cyberattacks



You'd think cyberattackers would go after like banks, national defense, government information or like socal media.

But random video games? Why? Seek pleasure? What pleasure do you get from some guy you don't know and will never see in California not being able to play a video game for a night?
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Guess CE doesn't car about Final Fantasy
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Guess CE doesn't car about Final Fantasy

Car isn't a fucking verb

UnfairRepresent posted...

Guess CE doesn't car about Final Fantasy

No one sane still cares about what happens in FFXIV, it's been the same game with a slightly different coat of paint since ARR.

OmegaShinkai posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Guess CE doesn't car about Final Fantasy

No one sane still cares about what happens in FFXIV, it's been the same game with a slightly different coat of paint since ARR.

Still one of the better MMOs that doesn't involve making a new character and starting over again to change jobs.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

You'd think cyberattackers would go after like banks, national defense, government information or like socal media.

But random video games? Why? Seek pleasure? What pleasure do you get from some guy you don't know and will never see in California not being able to play a video game for a night?

its much more likely that they will get caught and have heavy punishments put on them if they attack a bank or go for national defenses/information

random video game though? no one really cares besides the people playing it and the people running it
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OwlRammer posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

You'd think cyberattackers would go after like banks, national defense, government information or like socal media.

But random video games? Why? Seek pleasure? What pleasure do you get from some guy you don't know and will never see in California not being able to play a video game for a night?

its much more likely that they will get caught and have heavy punishments put on them if they attack a bank or go for national defenses/information

random video game though? no one really cares besides the people playing it and the people running it

But why?
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Why did you post a picture of ff8?

marked for off topic
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UnfairRepresent posted...

OwlRammer posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

You'd think cyberattackers would go after like banks, national defense, government information or like socal media.

But random video games? Why? Seek pleasure? What pleasure do you get from some guy you don't know and will never see in California not being able to play a video game for a night?

its much more likely that they will get caught and have heavy punishments put on them if they attack a bank or go for national defenses/information

random video game though? no one really cares besides the people playing it and the people running it

But why?

Extortion. They are trying to extort Square Enix out of money by making them lose customers who will most likely see it as their fault and not a cyberattack. You don't need to be a bank to pay ransom money.
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