Telegram Hit by DDoS Cyber-Attack, Users May Experience Connection Issues

In DDoS attacks, hijacked or virus-infected computers are used to target websites.

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By Reuters | Updated: 12 June 2019 18:38 IST
Highlights
  • Telegram said on Twitter that "things seem to have stabilised"
  • Users in the US and other countries were affected
  • A DDoS attack doesn't imply user data was exposed
Telegram Hit by DDoS Cyber-Attack, Users May Experience Connection Issues

Messaging service provider Telegram has been hit by a "powerful" distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and users in the United States and other countries may experience connection issues, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday. 

Telegram did not immediately respond to a request for more details on the attack. 

In DDoS attacks, hijacked or virus-infected computers are used to target websites.

"We're currently experiencing a powerful DDoS attack, Telegram users in the Americas and some users from other countries may experience connection issues... A DDoS is a “Distributed Denial of Service attack”: your servers get GADZILLIONS of garbage requests which stop them from processing legitimate requests. Imagine that an army of lemmings just jumped the queue at McDonald's in front of you – and each is ordering a whopper... The server is busy telling the whopper lemmings they came to the wrong place – but there are so many of them that the server can't even see you to try and take your order," Telegram said on Twitter.

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It added, "To generate these garbage requests, bad guys use “botnets” made up of computers of unsuspecting users which were infected with malware at some point in the past. This makes a DDoS similar to the zombie apocalypse: one of the whopper lemmings just might be your grandpa... There's a bright side: All of these lemmings are there just to overload the servers with extra work – they can't take away your BigMac and coke. Your data is safe... For the moment, things seem to have stabilized."

© Thomson Reuters 2019

 

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