[BGP!] Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: April 24, 2018 at 3:19:18 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] [BGP!] Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency
>
>
> [BGP!] Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency
>
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/suspicious-event-hijacks-amazon-traffic-for-2-hours-steals-cryptocurrency/
>
>      Amazon lost control of some of its widely used cloud services
>    for two hours on Tuesday morning when hackers exploited a
>    known Internet-protocol weakness that allowed them to redirect
>    traffic to rogue destinations. The attackers appeared to use
>    one server masquerading as cryptocurrency website
>    MyEtherWallet.com to steal digital coins from unwitting end
>    users. They may have targeted other customers of Amazon's
>    Route 53 service as well.  The incident, which started around
>    6am California time, hijacked roughly 1,300 IP addresses,
>    Oracle-owned Internet Intelligence said on Twitter.  The
>    malicious redirection was caused by fraudulent routes that
>    were announced by Columbus, Ohio-based eNet, a large Internet
>    service provider that is referred to as autonomous system
>    10297. Once in place, the eNet announcement caused some of its
>    peers to send traffic over the same unauthorized routes.
>    Amazon and eNet officials didn't immediately respond to a
>    request to comment.
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