Telegram stops working after suffering an attack
The most secure messaging application of the moment has stopped workingAnd yes, it was the fault of a intentional attack Of course, it seems that the security and above all the privacy of the users is still intact. And it is that it is an attack DDOS or denial of service Something common in Internet services that are sabotaged and that consists of saturating the system until it stops working. Precisely what the users of Telegram are experiencing since approximately 16 hours of this same day July 10th.
For now the official information comes from the official account of Telegram on the social network Twitter Here we began to report specific problems around the aforementioned time. However, the attack seemed to be affecting only the Asian markets, knowing full well that it was a DDOS attack intended. Things became a little more tense as the hours passed, because the system has been falling with the growth of the attack, preventing the normal functioning of the application globally Something users continue to experience intermittent as we write this article.
At the moment little else is known about the situation of the system. Only that the failures are eventual thanks to the actions of some Internet operators that are putting means to cut off the attack, thus freeing Telegram from the problem in a timely manner. The why or who are yet to be clarified, although the creator of Telegram himself, Pavel Durov has his own theory.
And this is when the fuse of a possible war between second-rate messaging applications is lit. Thus, the creator of Telegram assures in a tweet or Twitter message that his application has ceased to be operational temporarily in Google Play for actions taken by Naver, the company that created LINE A Japanese company to whom Durov subtly drops the weight of responsibility for what is happening with its own secure messaging service. Something that justifies clarifying how they have managed to grow three times in terms of use in the last two months An issue that could put applications like in check LINE, letting his followers of Twitter finish the equation to charge as responsible for everything that happened Naver and his trick on Google Play, perhaps trying to prevent another messaging application from taking his place. Something that at the moment Naver has not confirmed or clarified.
Be that as it may, the attack is real and is harming the system and, above all, its users. The good thing is that it only involves service down, ensuring the privacy of conversations and user chat.Now, they will have to be patient until they manage to solve the problem and restore the system. It will also be interesting to see how Naver and LINE respond to 's subtle accusations Durov Has begun a tough battle for the fourth placed among messaging apps after WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger andWeChat?
