Security News > 2021 > September > Bandwidth.com is latest victim of DDoS attacks against VoIP providers
Bandwidth.com has become the latest victim of distributed denial of service attacks targeting VoIP providers this month, leading to nationwide voice outages over the past few days.
As Bandwidth is one of the leading telephony providers for US voice over IP companies, many other VoIP vendors reported outages over the past few days, including Twilio, Accent, DialPad, Phone.com, and RingCentral.
The VoIP.ms attack was an extortion DDoS attack where threat actors impersonating the ransomware group 'REvil' initially demanded one bitcoin to halt their attacks but later increased it to 100 bitcoins.
Due to this recent attack, Bandwidth customers immediately suspected that Bandwidth was also suffering from a similar DDoS attack.
As VoIP services are commonly routed over the Internet and require their servers and endpoints to be publicly accessible, they are prime targets for DDoS extortion attacks.
Bandwidth customers have told BleepingComputer that employees said a DDoS attack caused the outages.
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