The popular messaging app, Telegram, is being hit by a powerful
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack due to which it was down for users all around the world. The services were terminated for about an hour and during this period, the encrypted messaging service, 'Telegram' commented on the working of a DDoS attack.
“We’re currently experiencing a powerful DDoS attack, Telegram users in the Americas and some users from other countries may experience connection issues.” Telegram tweeted.
The company explained a DDoS attack as when “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.”
The attack was not the first of its kind; the company’s services were disrupted by a similar attack four years ago as well. During that incident, the company’s chief executive, Parel Durov and other officials denied commenting on who was responsible for the DDoS attacks.
In one of its tweets, the company talks about a bright side of these DDoS attacks and says, "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 Big Mac and Coke,"
"To generate these garbage requests, bad guys use 'botnets' made up of computers of unsuspecting users who were infected with malware at some point in the past. This ..
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