between us became a victim DDoS attack (short for Distributed Denial of Service) affected its servers in North America and Europe, taking the video game out of service for days.
UnderwearThe developer Among Us has been trying to contain the DDoS attack since last Friday, March 25, when the attackers managed to disable access to its service for legitimate users.
“The service will be ‘offline’ while the team is trying to fix it, but It may take some time“, in a tweet posted that day from the game’s official account, recognized its staff on Twitter.
As a result of the attack, this was changed from being called ‘Between Us’ to ‘Between Us’ – Are the servers ok now?‘ For players to keep up to date with the latest news on this topic.
“We are experiencing sabotage” Despite the seriousness of the events, those responsible for the development of the game, who joked about the attack, commented.
“Did someone really have to attack us with a DDoS? at the end of the work day?‘, they assured, pointing out in a post, that their plan at the time was ‘to take a nap.
On Sunday, the Innersloth team moved forward again via this Twitter account. “to spend the whole day working on it”, they warned that some of their servers were stabilized.
However, they insisted that they could not yet make an official statement on its operability until its situation was better observed, and “lucies good”.
It’s not the first time that one of these cyberattacks among us has been targeted. In 2020, it was attacked in the form of ‘video game’.spamShe was massively promoted under the name Eris Loris by a hacker who threatened millions of players through her chat.
In these threats, this cybercriminal, if they do not subscribe to the YouTube channel, mobile devices will be the next attack targets.