An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent. The post DDoS attack that knocked Telegram secure messaging service offline linked to Hong Kong protests appeared first on The State of Security. The State of Security
Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack hit its servers. Telegram founder Pavel Durov later revealed that the attack was mainly coming from the IP addresses located in China, suggesting the Chinese government could be […]
An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Graham Cluley