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Update 9/28/21 03:24 PM EST: Added statement from Bandwidth.Bandwidth Inc. Update 9/28/21 11:16 AM EST: Updated with the continued outages suffered by. Thank you for your patience.' - Bandwidth CEO David Morken. We will not rest until we end this incident, and will continue to do all we can to protect against future ones. Real-time updates will continue to be posted at. If you are experiencing problems and you haven’t heard from us yet, please let us know. Our account managers and support teams have been actively reaching out to customers individually to address any issues. We are working around the clock to support your teams and minimize the impact of this attack. There is nothing this team takes more seriously. You trust us with your mission-critical communications. While we have mitigated much intended harm, we know some of you have been significantly impacted by this event. 'Bandwidth and a number of critical communications service providers have been targeted by a rolling DDoS attack. On Tuesday, Bandwidth broke their silence about the nature of their outages, confirming that they are caused by a DDoS attack as we originally reported. Our network operations and engineering teams continue active mitigation efforts to protect our network,' reads a screenshot shared on Reddit.ĭDoS attacks targeting Bandwidth began Tuesday morning again 'Bandwidth continues to experience a DDoS attack which is intermittently impacting our services. However, Bandwidth customers have told BleepingComputer that employees said a DDoS attack caused the outages.Īnother customer shared a screenshot on Reddit of a customer support message allegedly from a Technical Assistance Center manager who states that a DDoS attack is responsible for the outages.

To conduct these DDoS attacks, threat actors will overwhelm servers, portals, and gateways by sending more requests than can be handled and thus making the targeted devices and servers inaccessible to anyone else.Īt the time of this writing, Bandwidth has not publicly disclosed the cause of its outage and has not responded to our queries. The VoIP.ms attack was an extortion DDoS attack where threat actors impersonating the ransomware group 'REvil' initially demanded one bitcoin ($45,000) to halt their attacks but later increased it to 100 bitcoins ($4.5 million).ĭue to this recent attack, Bandwidth customers immediately suspected that Bandwidth was also suffering from a similar DDoS attack.Īs 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. hit with a DDoS attackĮarlier this month, VoIP provider VoIP.ms suffered a catastrophic week-long DDoS attack that took down almost all of their services and portals, leaving their customers without voice services. We will provide another update in 2 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.' Twilio's status page.

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We will continue monitoring the service to ensure a full recovery. Bandwidth is reporting the issue resolved as well. ' Monitoring - We are observing recovery in Twilio Voice call quality and connection issues. Twilio initially told BleepingComputer that they were not affected by Bandwidth's attack, but their status page states that they had issues with Bandwidth on September 27th. We will not close this issue until services have returned to the normal operation for a period of 72 hours.' - Accent's status page. Customers should be prepared for potential impairments of inbound services within 12-16 hours as the potential exists for this DDoS attack to return. We will continue to monitor this situation and report any new information as it becomes available. 'The upstream provider has indicated that service has returned to normal operation.

While it has not been confirmed if all these outages are related to Bandwidth's service disruption, one outage report directly mentions Bandwidth while the others state that an upstream provider was involved. Since then, Bandwidth has been providing frequent status updates detailing outages affecting voice, Enhanced 911 (E911) services, messaging, and access to the portal.Īs 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,, and RingCentral.

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