<p class="title">Messaging service provider Telegram said on Wednesday it had stabilized its systems after a "powerful" distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Telegram, which has more than 200 million users, had said earlier users in the United States and other countries may experience connection issues.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For the moment, things seem to have stabilized", the company said in another tweet nearly an hour after it acknowledged https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664?s=20 the attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Outage tracking website Downdetector.com https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/map showed that users in the United States and Brazil were the most affected.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In DDoS attacks, hijacked or virus-infected computers are used to target websites.</p>
<p class="title">Messaging service provider Telegram said on Wednesday it had stabilized its systems after a "powerful" distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Telegram, which has more than 200 million users, had said earlier users in the United States and other countries may experience connection issues.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For the moment, things seem to have stabilized", the company said in another tweet nearly an hour after it acknowledged https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664?s=20 the attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Outage tracking website Downdetector.com https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/map showed that users in the United States and Brazil were the most affected.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In DDoS attacks, hijacked or virus-infected computers are used to target websites.</p>