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Any.do WhatsApp is a pretty full-featured instant messaging platform, but it’s not in WeChat’s league when it comes to extra features. Fortunately, the Facebook-owned company has quietly revealed integration with the Any.do task manager. Other neat features include the ability to forward messages to the bot to create tasks (e.g. someone asking you to pick up groceries), the ability to share lists and assign tasks, synchronization with your Any.do tasks outside WhatsApp, and integration with over 1,500 apps. The feature is available to all WhatsApp-enabled devices around the world, but it unfortunately requires an Any.do subscription ($2.99 a month). Not sure if it’s worth the cash? Then you can try out a free seven-day trial over at the whatsapp.any.do website. You can also activate the feature via the Any.do app by tapping settings > integrations > WhatsApp. Hopefully this is just the start of services integrating with WhatsApp in a more meaningful way.

An Iranian based Cloud Infrastructure provider Arvan experienced a DDoS attack that peaks up to 5,000 Requests Per Second via Telegram MTProxy. The attack started on November 6 and lasts for 3 days. The MTProxy was used by Telegram to bypass the Iranian filtering system as the Telegram banned in Iran. Several users started using MTProxy which makes difficult for the government authorities to restrict the traffic. Attack With Telegram MTProxy Arvan spotted huge traffic received using free MTProxy hit on their Edge server and the packets are not specific to any domain name and they are directly sent to the IP address. The traffic received is completely random and has no similarities and it’s completely a new attack type and the traffic doesn’t follow any protocol patterns such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and so on. All the attack packets come within the Iranian IP and this huge amount of packets can disturb any server infrastructure the company says. Arvan tried multiple ways t...