Russia Blocks VPNs and Proxy Services Used for Telegram

Russian telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor moved to block around 50 VPN and proxy services for providing access to Telegram which had also been blocked around last month.

The list of banned services had not been officially revealed as the ban on Telegram itself is said to not be going according to plan. The government initially blocked Telegram’s known IP addresses, but the service then switched to new IPs. After this, Roskomnadzor attempted to ban nearly 20 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google Cloud, but abandoned the plan after a number of unrelated services had suffered outages for almost 12 days.

The regulator is also threatening to block Viber in the country if it does not comply with the requests of the FSB.

Source: Bleeping Computer