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According to journalists, users from Russia also could not go to Wikipedia: with...

The Russian Federation did not work Telegram, WhatsApp and other services: "Roskomnadzor" talks about a large -scale attack

According to journalists, users from Russia also could not go to Wikipedia: without VPN, the page simply did not open. The Russian authorities have declared a large-scale DDOS. In Russia, there was a massive failure of Telegram, WhatsApp, as well as with other online services and messengers. This was reported by the Russian edition of Astra. "They complain about the work (Telegram, ed. ) Both in Russia and abroad - at least, in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. ", - the message reads.

Journalists also released a schedule of users' complaints about the messenger, which shows that on August 21, after 2:00 pm, the number of complaints increased sharply. At the same time, the Russians began to complain about WhatsApp. In addition, users from Russia complain about problems with Wikipedia access, Discord and Skype messengers, as well as Steam game platform and some other applications and sites.

According to the subscribers of the Russian edition Baza, the telegrams "at least trying to work", but Wikipedia "simply does not open without VPN". Subsequently, Roskomnadzor reported that crashes in the services occurred through DDOS. "On August 21, from 14:00, the Center for Monitoring and Management of the Communication Network has recorded a number of services in the territory of Russia. The failure is related to the DDOS attack on Russian communication operators," the statement reads.