Telegram DDoS Attack was Connected to HK Protests
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Telegram DDoS Attack was Connected to HK Protests
June 14, 2019
Telegram traces cyber-attack during HK protests to China
(AFP) – Encrypted messaging service Telegram suffered a major cyber-attack that originated from China, the company’s CEO said yesterday, linking it to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong.
Many protesters in the city have used Telegram to evade electronic surveillance and coordinate their demonstrations against a controversial Beijing-backed plan that would allow extraditions from the semi-autonomous territory to the mainland.
Demonstrations descended into violence Wednesday as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to storm the city’s parliament – the worst political crisis Hong Kong has seen since its 1997 handover from Britain to China.
Telegram announced Wednesday that it was suffering a “powerful” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which involves a hacker overwhelming a target’s servers by making a massive number of junk requests.
It warned that users in many regions may face connection issues.
Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO, said the junk requests came mostly from China.
“Historically, all state actor-sized DDoS (200-400 Gb/s of junk) we experienced coincided in time with protests in Hong Kong (coordinated on @telegram),” he tweeted.
“This case was not an exception.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50614030/t ... -to-china/
Telegram traces cyber-attack during HK protests to China
(AFP) – Encrypted messaging service Telegram suffered a major cyber-attack that originated from China, the company’s CEO said yesterday, linking it to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong.
Many protesters in the city have used Telegram to evade electronic surveillance and coordinate their demonstrations against a controversial Beijing-backed plan that would allow extraditions from the semi-autonomous territory to the mainland.
Demonstrations descended into violence Wednesday as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who tried to storm the city’s parliament – the worst political crisis Hong Kong has seen since its 1997 handover from Britain to China.
Telegram announced Wednesday that it was suffering a “powerful” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which involves a hacker overwhelming a target’s servers by making a massive number of junk requests.
It warned that users in many regions may face connection issues.
Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO, said the junk requests came mostly from China.
“Historically, all state actor-sized DDoS (200-400 Gb/s of junk) we experienced coincided in time with protests in Hong Kong (coordinated on @telegram),” he tweeted.
“This case was not an exception.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50614030/t ... -to-china/
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