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12-15-2017 02:10 PM |
Major tech companies' internet traffic redirected during "suspicious" event
Did anyone catch this story?
With so many people?s attention focused on the net neutrality vote, it was easy to miss an unusual, and suspicious, event that took place earlier this week. On December 12, traffic to some of the world?s largest tech companies was briefly rerouted through an ?unused? Russian ISP.
BGPMon, which monitors events on the Internet's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), said Eighty prefixes associated with companies including Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitch, NTT Communications and Riot Games were affected. The autonomous Russian system added itself to entries in BGP tables, claiming it was the rightful origin of the prefixes.
Other automated Internet routing systems proceeded to pass data to the Russian ISP Origin AS 39523, believing it to be associated with the targeted companies, while ISPs including PJSC MegaFon, Hurricane Electric, Zayo, Nordunet, and Telstra picked up the new route.
Here is the full article: https://www.techspot.com/news/72331-...gh-russia.html
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