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<p>FYI a pretty weak but publicly referencable acknowledgement of
whats going on</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bandwidth.com/blog/a-message-to-our-customers-and-partners/">https://www.bandwidth.com/blog/a-message-to-our-customers-and-partners/</a></p>
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<div dir="ltr">They have publicly acknowledge it as a DDoS ( <a
href="https://www.bandwidth.com/blog/a-message-to-our-customers-and-partners/"
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) , but being pretty tight-lipped with specifics on what it is
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:29
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Happening
again. </div>
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at 10:19 PM Peter Beckman via VoiceOps <<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>>
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2021, Ryan Delgrosso wrote:<br>
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> Nothing meaningful other than the normal public
party line.<br>
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> I too have heard unofficially that its DDOS,
which makes sense given the <br>
> recurring nature.<br>
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> 4.5hrs down Sat<br>
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Our monitoring showed 2 hours 47 minutes of actual
service affecting<br>
outages across Voice (Inbound and Outbound),
Messaging, and API/Portal.<br>
<br>
The issue started at 3pm and recovered at 5:47pm
EDT. We reported it to<br>
the TAC at 3:07pm, they did not post on Status
until 3:31pm.<br>
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> Some small downtime Sun<br>
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> Now deep into Monday with problems.<br>
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> Its not a good look, but id like some more
transparency.<br>
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DDoS attacks are real and hard to null route.
You've got millions of IP<br>
addresses slamming you with data. Your router has
a capacity, and your<br>
router cannot handle all of that extra crap data
along with all of our<br>
traffic too.<br>
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I'm sure BW will be investing in some beefy
hardware that will be able to<br>
better handle DDoS attacks, as well as working
more closely with their<br>
peering providers. I have to assume that they were
getting gigabits of<br>
traffic, overwhelming their links in addition to
their edge routers.<br>
<br>
Cloudflare details how they do it here:<br>
<a
href="https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172676-Understanding-Cloudflare-DDoS-protection"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172676-Understanding-Cloudflare-DDoS-protection</a><br>
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Not much to be transparent about. The Internet is
an unfriendly place, and<br>
bad actors can rain hell upon any public IP they
want. Unsecured laptops,<br>
desktops, TVs, IOT devices, etc, all contribute
just a little tiny bit,<br>
and all focus on one single point, kinda like
those giant solar farms with<br>
the mirrors and single tower in the middle to boil
the molten salt.<br>
<br>
Well, Bandwidth is the molten salt, and the
mirrors are a bunch of<br>
unsecured devices on the Internet.<br>
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