One of the ten most popular messaging applications in the world is Telegram, and is available for both Apple iOS, as well as for Google Android.
H application uses end-to-end encryption, and can support chat groups up to 200.000 people at a time. The application can also share videos, but also large sizes of files and documents of any type.
The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, in a Twitter message, blamed China for the cyber-attacks that hit the Telegram app this week, and affected its subscribers.
Ο durov reports that telegram Servers were heavily attacked (DDoS), with IP addresses originating in China. These DDoS attacks sent huge amounts of requests in a short period of time to Telegram, effectively blocking the application which became inaccessible to many subscribers.
Durov said that in the past, similar DDoS attacks have been linked to protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese government, and the same has been done in this case.
Due to the encryption of the application to hide the content of the messages, Telegram is popular among protesters in any country, allowing them to coordinate in groups of up to 200.000 members, without being able to be detected by the country's authorities. .
So a DDoS attack on the telegram would prevent protesters in Hong Kong from coordinating to gather at a specific place and time.
The Chinese government has denied responsibility for the attack. The representative of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Geng Swang said yesterday that he knew nothing about the incident.
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