United Kingdom
GBR
Voipfone extortion DDoS attacks interrupt business telephony services
DDoS extortion attacks against UK VoIP provider Voipfone on October 22 and again October 25, 2021 disrupted voice calling for business customers. The initial platform outage lasted nearly four hours; renewed attacks caused further widespread voice-service unavailability.
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Estimated severity
78 / 100
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Source reliability
88 / 100
Approximate Date
2021-10-22
Targeted Company
VOIPFONE
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
United Kingdom
Affected countries
United Kingdom
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
No information
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Downstream customer disruptionService unavailability
Affected sectors
Telecommunications
Affected departments
Customer ServiceInformation Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of serviceExtortion
Attributed threat actors
No information