Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world
Apple's internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27.for MANRS , a public interest group that looks after internet routing, Internet Society senior internet technology manager Aftab Siddiqui said that Russia's Rostelecom started announcing routes for part of Apple's network on Tuesday, a practice referred to as BGP hijacking.
BGP is the glue that links multiple networks together to form the internet. Unfortunately, the protocol is too credulous. When an autonomous system – a group of networks managed by a single entity – announces routes for groups of IP addresses that it does not own, internet traffic will generally adapt to those routes if the rogue announcement isn't filtered out.
Some bad route announcements are accidental and a result of something like a configuration blunder, and some announcements are straight-up malicious.Amazon's Route 53 DNS service and redirect internet traffic from a cryptocurrency website to a phishing site hosted in Russia. The redirection of Apple's networking traffic began about 2125 UTC on Tuesday, according to Siddiqui, when Rostelecom’s AS12389 network began announcing 17.70.96.0/19, which is part of Apple's
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