According to the publisher of Call of Duty, Blizzard’s servers are under DDoS attack, resulting in failed logins and long lines for players on the company’s Battle.net service. Blizzard says it’s actively monitoring the ongoing “distributed denial of service” attack that prevents users from logging in or putting them in long queues for Activision Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and CoD Warzone. . , Hearthstone, Overwatch and Diablo.
On September 14 at 12:00 AM PT / 3:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PST, the Down Detector bug reporting website saw an increase in reports from Blizzard’s Battle.net service. Blizzard Support Twitter Account soon realized after that, the company is “investigating an issue affecting our authentication servers that may be causing slow or failed login attempts.”
Some users have reported that when they try to log in to Battle.net, they find themselves in a queue with an estimated wait time of over an hour. A DDoS attack or Distributed Denial of Service attack is a malicious interruption of an online service where bots intentionally flood the target server with traffic from various sources. This allows the server to handle legitimate connections and in some cases can cause a complete shutdown.
blizzard support should saying, “We continue to actively monitor an ongoing DDoS attack that is impacting our games’ latency/connectivity.” DDoS attacks are notorious because the large number of sources that send requests to the server are often difficult to identify and block.
For more updates on this you can refer to Blizzard CS On twitter.
In addition to this issue, Blizzard is temporarily shutting down some of the larger World of Warcraft Classic servers to prevent queues from overflowing. Meanwhile, Call of Duty Next is set to reveal Warzone 2, and recent changes to Hearthstone Battle Pass have upset some players with alleged pay-to-win changes. While you’re waiting for Blizzard’s servers to get back to normal, why not check out the best free games on PC to find something else to keep you busy?
Source : PC Gamesn
