Telegram Hit by DDoS Cyber 1o4r45 Attack, s May Experience Connection Issues

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By Reuters | Updated: 12 June 2019 18:38 IST

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

Highlights

Telegram said on Twitter that "things seem to have stabilised"
s in the US and other countries were affected
A DDoS attack doesn't imply data was exposed

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Messaging service provider Telegram has been hit by a "powerful" distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and s in the United States and other countries may experience connection issues, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday. 5m395f

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 s in the Americas and some s 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.

It added, "To generate these garbage requests, bad guys use “botnets” made up of computers of unsuspecting s 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."

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