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DAN GOODIN
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/suspicious-event-routes-traffic-for-big-name-sites-through-russia/
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Traffic sent to and from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider Wednesday under circumstances researchers said was suspicious and intentional.
Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services Internet traffic
The unexplained incident involving the Internet's Border Gateway Protocol is the latest to raise troubling questions about the trust and reliability of communications sent over the global network. BGP routes large-scale amounts of traffic among Internet backbones, ISPs, and other large networks. But despite the sensitivity and amount of data it controls, BGP's security is often based on trust and word of mouth. Wednesday's event comes eight months after large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom, also under suspicious circumstances.
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According to a blog post published Wednesday by Internet monitoring service BGPMon, the hijack lasted a total of six minutes and affected 80 separate address blocks. It started at 4:43 UTC and continued for three minutes. A second hijacking occurred at 7:07 UTC and also lasted three minutes. Meanwhile, a second monitoring service, Qrator Labs, said the event lasted for two hours, although the number of hijacked address blocks varied from 40 to 80 during that time.
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)They've hit power companies, banks, hospitals.....
All of the hits go back to Russia and I have said for a couple of years now that this was to give them back doors and one day they'll turn us off, boom right back to the 1800's and we'll be held for ransom.
It probably sounds nutty but they've tested out hitting everything and one day they'll use it to finish the Cold War. I just hope we have a way to isolate things like air traffic control and the nukes in the silos here so that planes don't fall out of the sky and missiles aren't detonated in the ground here.
I also hope me and my family get killed in the first wave. I don't want to try to survive that hellscape.
crosinski
(411 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The Republican betrayal of America is vile. It won't be surprised to learn they had some kind of a greasy mitt involved in this latest Russian attack on Americas Internet