DDoSers take weekend off only to resume campaign against UK's Voipfone on Monday

2021-10-26 10:23

Internet telephone service provider Voipfone, currently battling a "Major outage" across all voice services, has admitted to being hit by an "Extortion-based DDoS attack from overseas criminals" that knocked it offline last week.

It seems that the evil-doers took the weekend off and attacked Voipfone again yesterday, according to Register reader Richard.

In between the attacks on Voipfone, UK retailer Tesco was forced to shutter its online operations due to an attempt to "Interfere" with its systems.

The South Coast-based firm told The Register back in September that it had been slapped with a "Colossal ransom demand" after being hit by a sustained and large-scale DDoS attack it believed originated from the Russian cybercriminal gang REvil.

The chair of Comms Council UK, Eli Katz, said: "Several Comms Council UK members and international IP-based communications service providers have been subjected to Distributed Denial of Service attacks over the past four weeks which appear to be part of a coordinated extortion-focused international campaign by professional cyber criminals."

"Katz added:"As our members supply telecoms services to critical infrastructure organisations including the police, NHS and other public services, attacks on our members are attacks on the foundations of UK infrastructure.

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