Telegram messaging app cops 200Gbps DDoS

Popular messaging platform Telegram has been hit with a 200Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The Tsunami TCP SYN flood kicked off on Friday and hurt users in Asia, Australia, and Oceania, knocking out the service for some five percent of the company's 60 million active users it has gained in 18 months. It is a …

[A Non e-mouse]

Location, location, location

How do they know the attack is being co-ordinated from East Asia?

[Spaceman Spiff]

Re: Location, location, location

And if so, where in "East Asia". That covers a lot of territory! It covers most of China, large parts of Russia, Japan, both Koreas, Vietnam (northern part at least), Taiwan, Okinawa (ok, part of Japan in theory), ...

[tomi]

Re: Location, location, location

Could be Hong Kong like in the example of XOR.DDOS (http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2014/09/mmd-0028-2014-fuzzy-reversing-new-china.html)

[sergioio]

Publicity Stunt?

This whole thing looks like another publicity stunt; wouldn't be the first time Telegram tries to pull off something like this. They'd better improve their messenger and finally encrypt chats by default. (I'd love to only use Threema, but some of my contacts still use Telegram.)