Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

For some days now I've seen a sustained attempt by #cybercriminals to exploit misconfigured / insecure #VOIP phone systems to make multiple #telephone calls to the #French #Embassy in #London (+44 20 7073 1000).

They are not getting anywhere on two systems I run as the #security software knocks back the INVITE attempts along with all the other various #blighters , but this traffic stands out as all the attempts are to this number - it doesn't look like the perps are searching for an open trunk to misuse for spam calls or even reselling minutes on other peoples systems, but a deliberate attempt to overwhelm the switchboard at the Embassy.

Not sure if I should report this somewhere, or its presumably already been noticed by #NCSC and #DGSE ?

Feb 21 at 6:41pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 21
18 attempts in last half hour! Someone really seems determined to cause the Embassy some problems and is putting quite a bit of effort into doing this..
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 24

todays #blighters have given up with the French Embassy, but are bizzarely *constantly* trying to dial wrong numbers or what appear to be valid numbers (today, someone in Denmark appears to be being targeted) but with a *really* bizzare set of escape digits beforehand..

Either they are #vibecoding their #SIP #hacking scripts and have 0 idea of how telephone numbers are actually formatted, or they are hoping to get a reorder back from someone who *has* misconfigured their #trunk or left it insecure, and then use that one for actual calls..

Show threadBobo_PK 🦄Feb 21
@vfrmedia you could call them /s