June 19-20, most Skype users in Europe and partly in the US could not connect to the service. It took 24 hours to solve the problem, but two days later Skype was still inaccessible to many Europeans.

The company said that it knows about the failure of the service, but did not name the cause of the problem. Responsibility for the incident took over the hacker group CyberTeam, which promised to attack a new victim soon. According to a post published on Twitter by CyberTeam, the problem with access to Skype is "just the beginning of a new era," and the next goal of hackers will be the Steam game service.

The grouping profile on Twitter says that it specializes in DDoS attacks on Steam, EA, Xbox and PSN. "We will be even more" aggressive "than Lizard Squad. Steam, you're on the line, "says a tweet dated June 20. As stated in the message of the participant CyberTeam and Lizard Squad under the pseudonym Zambrius, he has a Mirai botnet out of 50 thousand. Bots.

At present, it is not known whether the Skype operation was actually caused by a DDoS attack and whether it is related to CyberTeam.

Lizard Squad - a cybercrime group that specializes in DDoS attacks (primarily on gaming services).

Known for a number of high-profile attacks that occurred in 2014. Among them, you can note the attack on the services of PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in late December 2014, which deprived gamers of the opportunity to play their favorite games for Christmas.

Mirai - Linux-worm and the botnet of the same name, consisting of compromised devices "Internet of things". Used to implement the most powerful in the history of DDoS attacks (on the website of journalist Brian Krebs and the American DNS provider Dyn).