That’s already three attacks in four days. Andorra Telecom, the only operator in the micro-state, continues to mitigate DDoS, but until those causing it are found, users and famous streamers who live there to avoid taxes continue to face the consequences.
Since last friday, Andorra Telecom, the sole operator of the micro-state, suffers from distributed denial of service attacks or DDoS. For those who don’t know, DDoS is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a service to be inaccessible to legitimate users. It overwhelms the website’s ability to handle multiple requests and prevents the website from working properly. Although the operator is mitigating these attacks, the DDoS It seems that he does not give up and continues to harm many of the clients of Andorra, including large streamers.
The last attack was today and the telecommunications operator reported that, due to a new case of DDoS, the service is being affected and that users may have difficulties browsing the internet. He also assured that they were working to mitigate the attack as soon as possible.
⚠️ The internet xarxa is patint NOVAMENT a denial of service attack (DDoS). For this reason, some users may have difficulties browsing the internet. Ho estem mitigant.
— Andorra Telecom (@AndorraTelecom) January 24, 2022
As we said at the beginning, this is not the first time that these attacks have occurred. The first was on Friday just when several streamers They were in the middle of a tournament. Squid Games. For him DDoS, some participants, out of the blue, stopped broadcasting on Twitter at the same time. They were unable to reconnect and had to leave the game so as not to interrupt their teammates.
the tournament of Twitch Rivals, based on the successful series of Netflix The Squid Game, started last Wednesday with 147 streamers from Spain, Latin America and Andorra and are participating for a prize of 100,000 euros. On Friday, the streamers who played from Andorra (Auronplay, El Rubius, TheGrefg, among others who live there to avoid taxes from their native countries) stopped broadcasting on the platform, which caused a stir among the audience, since they did not know what was happening. Thanks to the clarification of Andorra Telecom a few minutes later, we learned that the Internet network was suffering from an attack DDoS. The service was able to stabilize half an hour later.
The second attack, similar to the previous one, occurred a day later, the Saturday, more or less at the same time. Andorra Telecom detailed that the attacks “they sought to harm the programming of some youtubers” and assured that there were “affected the Internet and 4G service of some” from your customers.
Obviously, these attacks of DDoS caused consequences in the tournament Squid Games. On Saturday, Twitter user @LaVozdeTodo reported the “elimination by disconnection” of 11 players, including the well-known streamers elrubius, SrAuronPlay, SweetyB or Grefunando.
— Voices of Squid Game Minecraft 😈 (@LaVozDeTodo) January 22, 2022
Although these attacks are not long lasting, they greatly harm the popular streamers Y youtubers, since the times in which these episodes are happening are during their broadcasts with the most audience. According Andorra Telecom and the micro-state press, YouTubers denounced these attacks and the country’s authorities are investigating them.
Andorra Telecom It is the only fixed and mobile telephony, subscription television and internet operator in the micro-state. In this way, it constitutes a monopoly in the field of telecommunications and is responsible for providing internet to the 77,200 inhabitants of Andorra. With these attacks and until the culprits are found, the cybersecurity team at Andorra Telecom assures that it continues working to mitigate the episodes.