UK VoIP telco receives ‘colossal ransom demand’


Two UK VoIP operators have had their services disrupted over the last couple of days by ongoing, aggressive DDoS attacks.

South Coast-based Voip Unlimited has confirmed it has been slapped with a “colossal ransom demand” after being hit by a sustained and large-scale DDoS attack it believes originated from the Russian cybercriminal gang REvil.

This morning, it confirmed that “services are operational … however the attacks are still ongoing.”

Separately, London-based Voipfone (see status page here) said it is still suffering outages on voice, inbound and outbound calls, and SMS services.

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Source: The Register