‘Among Us’ servers down for the entire weekend in North America and Europe due to a DDoS attack

"Among Us" players in North America and Europe have been unable to access the game for the entire weekend after Innersloth announced a "sabotage." As of this writing, developer Innersloth has yet to issue an update if the servers are stable again.

In true "Among Us" fashion, Innersloth announced the attack on late Friday, telling fans on Twitter, "We have a sabotage going on lol." The indie studio confirmed in the same post that the game's North American and European servers were experiencing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, leaving the game unavailable to fans in the said region.

DDoS attacks are typically carried out by an attacker using a botnet consisting of numerous computers and other devices that may have been infected by malware. Infected devices are then remotely utilized by the culprits to send an influx of internet traffic to overwhelm a target server. "From a high level, a DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination," Cloudflare explains.

The game's official Twitter page has changed its display name to include "server maybe ok now?" But Innersloth issued the latest update on Sunday afternoon, saying the NA and EU servers are still down at the time.

Innersloth told fans on Sunday, "They may come on/off but will update [you] when we think they're stable, sorry!!!" Meanwhile, Kotaku asked Innersloth what might have made "Among Us" a target of a DDoS attack, and Innerslot said, "Salty over being ejected."

Innersloth's response was a reference to one of the core mechanics of "Among Us." To those not familiar with the game, a group of up to 15 players enters a match as Crewmates. But one or more members are designated Impostors, whose main goal is to secretly kill all the legitimate crewmates before they are voted out.

While real Crewmates work on completing various tasks, Impostors can sneak through the vents and sabotage them. Members can then call an emergency meeting to discuss previous deaths or any sabotage that occurred, so they can discuss who is the most likely Impostor. They can then take a vote, and whoever they collectively think is the Impostor will be ejected from the ship.