VOIP DDoS Attacks Persist! FBI Now Involved!
One thing that is not being reported by the mainstream media as such but is an issue of great concern is the VOIP DDoS Attack problem.
One thing that is not being reported by the mainstream media as such but is an issue of great concern is the VOIP DDoS Attack problem. These attacks have become persistent and the volume is increasing with every passing day. As these attacks seem benign, they don’t get much attention from anyone.
Most of the time, people are not even aware of them occurring. If you also have no idea about DDoS attacks and how they can harm you and put your privacy at risk, this article holds a lot of information for you!

VOIP DDoS Attacks Persist! FBI Now Involved!
DDoS is basically a type of attack that is done in cyberspace. DDoS stands for denial-of-service attack. It is a part of the regular activity on cyberspace and is considered quite a harmful cyberattack.
It is carried out by making network resources unreachable for the users for some time. It is done in the most casual manner possible. The perpetrator disrupts the services of the network provider for the time being. The services that the user receives from the host connected with a network are made unavailable.

The method of attack is quite interesting. What these cyber attackers have been doing over the last few months is that they fill the web servers with unlimited requests. Being aware of the fact that a network resource comes with a finite limit to which it can manage the requests, the attackers overload it with requests.
Hence, it supersedes the bandwidth capacity, leading to its instant crash. Hence, even the genuine requests do not get through the server. The infrastructure crashes down, causing a lot of upheaval amongst the internet users.
This is what has started becoming a regular activity now. Owing to the increased number of such attacks, all online businesses have become highly insecure. The inability of the real traffic to reach the site affects these businesses really badly.
Eventually, it hinders their ability to make profits, causing a huge panic amongst them. This conscious attempt to make a service unavailable for a while is a form of cyber-attack, which is increasingly becoming a source of great insecurity for online businesses.
The bunch of robots making these attacks are controlled by nefarious elements wanting to disrupt the regular working of an online business. They randomly send out ICMP packets to affect the traffic negatively by overwhelming the internet service. With the input requests reaching out of bounds, the output freezes. The real people sending out requests to the traffic find it irritating when these requests are not fulfilled. Hence, they are not able to use the VOIP services when required.
A few years ago, Amazon was attacked by DDoS and it was a huge deal. People couldn’t get the information across the Amazon website and it caused a great panic. This happened ten years ago when the concept of such attacks was new. Now, the attacks have become quite common, increasingly causing regular disruption in cyberspace.
Most internet service providers use open platforms for the customers rather than closed platforms of interaction makes it easier for attackers to plan such malicious activities. It has made more and more service providers vulnerable to these attacks.
Alongside this, the attackers beforehand, known as the rebel group, could be part of the mastermind behind all these attacks, wanting to gain more profit through demand for money. However, at the same time, the possibility of another group mimicking the same activity by the Rebel group to scare the cyberspace business owners and get money from them.

Being on the closed platform for the VOIPs would be a better idea if they want to keep themselves protected from such attacks. However, the shift from being an open to a closed platform is not really that easy. It would require them to shift their entire infrastructure. This would cost a fortune.
At the same time, it would also limit the number of genuine people visiting their websites, reducing the profit they earn from the websites. The security would, hence, come with the cost of limiting the number of people actually becoming aware of the kind of services they provide. This may be the cost that would have to be paid by the consumer, eventually.
Final Thought:
However, now the lawmakers are quite focused on the issue. They have asked the FBI to get involved in the matter and take the required actions. Though it may be a little too late to take such actions and have complete control over the internet space, only time will tell whether the FBI is involved in finding out the culprits of the DDoS attacks!
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