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According to the founder [1], Telegram was even removed from Play Store for a few hours at the request of a South Korean competitor. For whatever reason, somebody in South Korea is seriously pissed off with Telegram. [1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/619486763032182784
According to the founder [1], Telegram was even removed from Play Store for a few hours at the request of a South Korean competitor. For whatever reason, somebody in South Korea is seriously pissed off with Telegram. [1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/619486763032182784
LINE is a Japanese company IIRC.
I knew it would be S.Korea. The company I used to work for, at the time I left, was dealing with some particularly spiteful individuals from S.Korea who have been DDoSing their gaming platform and their separate video host. This was happening off and on for about 12 months. Interestingly enough, each attack was committed by completely different individual and were unrelated. In one attack where the guy was caught (I…
Could this be a state-sponsored attack? Or an attack by nationalists who are against people bypassing the anti-everything-speech-related laws?
If by "nationalists" you mean the notorious online community known as ilbe, that's definitely possible. They're a weird amalgam of political ideology and lulz, basically the neocon counterpart to /b/.
But it could just as well have been a shady competitor who got pissed off with Telegram for whatever reason. The social networking market in Korea is cutthroat. Almost everyone treats it as a zero-sum game where you have to destroy all the others in order to succeed. Maybe this competitor was planning to launch what it considered a killer feature and Telegram launched it first. Stickers?
200Gbps (if true) seems very high for a non reflection attack.
According to the founder [1], Telegram was even removed from Play Store for a few hours at the request of a South Korean competitor. For whatever reason, somebody in South Korea is seriously pissed off with Telegram. [1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/619486763032182784
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Could this be a state-sponsored attack? Or an attack by nationalists who are against people bypassing the anti-everything-speech-related laws?
An attack sponsored by the South Korean government sounds unlikely. South Korea isn't exactly a bastion of free speech, but it isn't China, either. If by "nationalists" you mean the notorious online community known as ilbe , that's definitely possible. They're a weird amalgam of political ideology and lulz, basically the neocon counterpart to /b/. But it could just as well have been a shady competitor who got pissed…
Some people think it's China who attack Telegram, to avoid the lawyers to warning each other for the arrestment.
1) https://www.facebook.com/chrlcg/photos/a.1571958406350448.10...
2) http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-07/11/c_128010249.ht...
200Gbps (if true) seems very high for a non reflection attack.
This tsunami TCP SYN attack uses 1000 byte SYN packets apparently. A good countermeasure for these would be rejection of all large SYN packets. Verisign DDoS protection services claim that they can withstand 2Tbps attacks of most types.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This tsunami TCP SYN attack uses 1000 byte SYN packets apparently. A good countermeasure for these would be rejection of all large SYN packets. Verisign DDoS protection services claim that they can withstand 2Tbps attacks of most types.
Unfortunately this would break TCP Fast Open, which transmits data with the initial SYN.