Security News > 2021 > November > Telnyx is the latest VoIP provider hit with DDoS attacks
Telnyx is the latest VoIP telephony provider targeted with distributed denial-of-service attacks, causing worldwide outages since yesterday.
Starting November 9th at approximately 11 PM EST, Telnyx was targeted with a DDoS attack causing all telephony services to fail or be delayed.
"Telnyx is currently experiencing a DDoS attack. Until we reach a resolution, you may be experiencing failed calls, API and portal latency/time outs, and/or delayed or failed messages," reported the Telnyx status page.
After the DDoS attacks continued, Telnyx began migrating their services to Cloudflare's Magic Transit service, which provides DDoS protection for service providers.
Morken went as far as to say that the attacks on their infrastructure taught Cloudflare how to mitigate attacks against VoIP providers.
As VoIP services are commonly routed over the Internet and require servers and endpoints to be publicly accessible, they become prime targets for DDoS extortion attacks.