They have publicly acknowledge it as a DDoS ( https://www.bandwidth.com/blog/a-message-to-our-customers-and-partners/ ) , but being pretty tight-lipped with specifics on what it is or how they are mitigating.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:29 PM Carlos Alvarez <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this some sort of ransom event against them maybe? And what are the > rest of you telling your customers? We seem to have only a few > specifically complaining, but those are complaining a lot. > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:06 PM Ivan Kovacevic < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Happening again. >> >> https://status.bandwidth.com/ >> >> >> [image: Star Telecom - Cloud Communications and Customer Experience >> Solutions] <https://www.startelecom.ca/> >> >> *Ivan Kovacevic* >> >> *Co-Founder and VP Client Services* >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:19 PM Peter Beckman via VoiceOps < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2021, Ryan Delgrosso wrote: >>> >>> > Nothing meaningful other than the normal public party line. >>> > >>> > I too have heard unofficially that its DDOS, which makes sense given >>> the >>> > recurring nature. >>> > >>> > 4.5hrs down Sat >>> >>> Our monitoring showed 2 hours 47 minutes of actual service affecting >>> outages across Voice (Inbound and Outbound), Messaging, and API/Portal. >>> >>> The issue started at 3pm and recovered at 5:47pm EDT. We reported it to >>> the TAC at 3:07pm, they did not post on Status until 3:31pm. >>> >>> > Some small downtime Sun >>> > >>> > Now deep into Monday with problems. >>> > >>> > Its not a good look, but id like some more transparency. >>> >>> DDoS attacks are real and hard to null route. You've got millions of IP >>> addresses slamming you with data. Your router has a capacity, and your >>> router cannot handle all of that extra crap data along with all of our >>> traffic too. >>> >>> I'm sure BW will be investing in some beefy hardware that will be able >>> to >>> better handle DDoS attacks, as well as working more closely with their >>> peering providers. I have to assume that they were getting gigabits of >>> traffic, overwhelming their links in addition to their edge routers. >>> >>> Cloudflare details how they do it here: >>> >>> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172676-Understanding-Cloudflare-DDoS-protection >>> >>> Not much to be transparent about. The Internet is an unfriendly place, >>> and >>> bad actors can rain hell upon any public IP they want. Unsecured >>> laptops, >>> desktops, TVs, IOT devices, etc, all contribute just a little tiny bit, >>> and all focus on one single point, kinda like those giant solar farms >>> with >>> the mirrors and single tower in the middle to boil the molten salt. >>> >>> Well, Bandwidth is the molten salt, and the mirrors are a bunch of >>> unsecured devices on the Internet. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Peter Beckman Internet >>> Guy >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.angryox.com/ >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ >>> VoiceOps mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >>> _______________________________________________ >>> VoiceOps mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >>> >> >> NOTE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the >> intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged >> information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is >> prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the >> sender by replying to this email, and destroy all copies of the original >> message. >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >
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