Threema Learns What A DDoS Attack Is

Here we go again, as secure messaging darling Threema watched its core backend infrastructure drown in a sea of malicious traffic. Users wanting real-time communication were naturally left staring into the digital void while servers choked. To shield against this predictably tedious nonsense, engineers had to scramble and deploy mitigation workflows just to isolate the incoming garbage and stabilise access. Why do we even bother pretending network pipes can handle unsolicited attention?