"OK Google, why was your web traffic hijacked and routed through China, Russia today?" [View all]
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/11/13/google_russia_routing/?__twitter_impression=tru
OK Google, why was your web traffic hijacked and routed through China, Russia today?
BGP attack committed 'grand theft internet'
By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 13th November 2018 01:05 GMT
People's connections in the US to Google – including its cloud, YouTube, and other websites – were suddenly rerouted through Russia and into China in a textbook Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking attack.
That means folks in Texas, California, Ohio, and so on, firing up their browsers and software and connecting to Google and its services were instead talking to systems in Russia and China, and not servers belonging to the Silicon Valley giant.
Any information exchanged during the hour-and-a-half-long hijacking that wasn't securely encrypted may have leaked into the wrong hands. Netizens outside of America may also have been affected.
The Chocolate Factory confirmed that
for a period on Monday afternoon, from 1312 to 1435 Pacific Time, connections to Google Cloud, its APIs, and websites were being diverted through IP addresses belonging to overseas ISPs. Sites and apps built on Google Cloud, such as Spotify, Nest, and Snapchat, were also brought down by the interception.
Specifically, network connectivity to Google was instead routed through TransTelekom in Russia (mskn17ra-lo1.transtelecom.net), and into a China Telecom gateway (ChinaTelecom-gw.transtelecom.net) that black-holed the packets. Both nodes have since stopped resolving to IP addresses.
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From Twitter Source
https://mobile.twitter.com/JedGarren/status/1062158920733593600
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https://mobile.twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1062181354245365760
This is CyberWarfare & this is why Putin is a Serious Global Threat
I do not know if this interruption earlier today has anything to do with the sudden deletions of certain RW online media communications.
However after reading this, it makes one wonder about a few other occurances we've had to deal with recently.
Like our midterm elections.
There's a lot her to read thru.
Night -~
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