Security News > 2019 > June > Telegram Suffers 'Powerful DDoS Attack' From China During Hong Kong Protests
2019-06-13 10:48
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 behind it to sabotage
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