Voipfone has come under a severe “extortion-based” distributed denial-of-service attack from foreign entities, U.K.-based company says. This is the second DDoS attack on the company in the past two months. The attacks have been described as potentially part of a protection racket from ransomware actors or other threat groups, according to ISP rating company ISPreview. Ransomware attackers leveraging DDoS attacks is not new, cybersecurity companies such as Cloudflare have a term for it – Ransom DDoS.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/voipfone-ddos-attacks-raise-specter-protection-racket-a-17805