'Among Us' Servers Have Been Down Thanks to a DDoS Attack

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"Among Us" servers are still down as of press time due to an ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack was confirmed by the game's developer, Innersloth, on Twitter.

'Among Us' Servers are Down Due to DDoS Attack

"Among Us" fans, it looks like you may have to continue waiting to play the game due an ongoing DDoS attack affecting its servers. As of writing, the servers are still offline.

Innersloth confirmed the attack on Twitter with a tweet that reads "servers are still down while we work to fix the DDoS sabotage." The tweet says that the servers may come on and off, but Innersloth has promised to inform players once they are stable.

 According to a report by Eurogamer, the DDoS attack affects North American as well as European servers. The report also notes that, as time went by, it began to like that the attack is actually worse than initially expected.

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What is a DDoS Attack?

Cloudflare defines a DDoS attack as "a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic."

Those who carry out DDoS attacks make use of networks of machines that are connected to the internet and have malware in them. The malware allows them to be controlled by the culprit behind the attack and turns this group of devices into what is referred to as a botnet.

"When a victim's server or network is targeted by the botnet, each bot sends requests to the target's IP address, potentially causing the server or network to become overwhelmed, resulting in a denial-of-service to normal traffic," Cloudflare says.

DDoS attacks can be identified by the following signs:

• A large amount of traffic coming from one IP address
• Odd traffic patterns that happen during unusual times of the day
• An unusual flood of traffic from users who have the same device type, web browser version, or even location

'Among Us'

"Among Us" is an online multiplayed game released in 2018 by Innersloth. It is playable on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft Windows, Android, and iOS.

The space-themed social deduction game allows each player to either be a Crewmate or an Impostor. The goal of the game for the Crewmates is to identify and kick out the Impostors in the group. Another way they can win is by completing the given tasks.

For the Impostors, the game can be won either by killing the Crewmates before they complete the tasks or by sabotaging them by creating a disaster that cannot be fixed.

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Written by Isabella James