The Russian government has blamed the widespread outage of several popular mobile applications on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The outage affected a number of messaging apps and online services, including Telegram, WhatsApp, Skype, Wikipedia, Steam, Discord, Twitch, and VKontakte – a Russian social network. However, people in Moscow reported regaining access to services when using a VPN, prompting some to speculate that Russian authorities were to blame for the outage.
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Source: MSN News
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