Guild Wars 2

DarkusTheFirst.6890:

The solution is both very complex, yet very simple.

You wish to stop a group of this nature? You have to remove the line of command. Whoever is coordinating the group needs to be discovered.

IE anyone with technical know-how and the time looking into things to perhaps get everyone some information on these ‘lizards’ will let us get somewhere.

Very true, but anyone that does go snooping will need to be careful as well.
If the boast about taking down ic3.gov and the public FBI portal were more than just a brag, then the authorities WILL take it seriously and respond.
Probably in a saurian manner and using the bigger hammer method, but they will respond.
Unfortunately, then any non-official tracing will likely get that person wrapped up in the same mess.

Honestly, a lot of bigger ISP’s don’t track the attacks across their networks unless there’s a warrant / subpoena / NSL request.
It isn’t really due to apathy though, they don’t want to have to report it to the FCC and FBI. This is mainly due to them not wanting to make the investment commitment to keep software and security current – think of the SSL exploit from some months back as an example.
Tracing attacks like this from the target end is more difficult than from the network side, but you have to get the ISP’s on board to help, and a LOT of them have a policy of number of complaints – if there’s not enough of their customers complaining, then it’s obviously not a problem on “their” network.

Also on Verizon FIOS, also in VA. I updated the host file and it’s working fine in both WIN7 and WIN8.

But, I’ll also make sure VZ network techs are aware of the issue.