June 7, 2006
VoIP Providers Attacked
Not that this kind of thing couldn’t happen on on the traditional land-line network, but this is a terribly interesting VoIP attack:
To evade detection, Mr. Pena is said to have hacked into computers run by an unsuspecting investment company in Rye Brook, N.Y., commandeering its unprotected servers to re-route phone traffic through them. These steps made it appear as if this company was sending calls to more than 15 Internet phone companies.
In one three-week period, for instance, prosecutors say that one of the victimized Internet phone providers, based in Newark, received about 500,000 calls that were made to look as if they came from the company in Rye Brook.
Coincidentally, Net2Phone is located in Newark.
Hacker Said to Resell Internet Phone Service [NY Times]
