Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services' Internet traffic

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

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: April 29, 2017 at 4:24:38 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services' Internet traffic
>
>
> Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services' Internet traffic
>
> https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/russian-controlled-telecom-hijacks-financial-services-internet-traffic/
>
>      On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to
>    MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial
>    services companies were briefly routed through a Russian
>    government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances
>    that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability
>    of some of the most sensitive Internet communications.
>    Anomalies in the border gateway protocol--which routes
>    large-scale amounts of traffic among Internet backbones, ISPs,
>    and other large networks--are common and usually the result of
>    human error. While it's possible Wednesday's five- to
>    seven-minute hijack of 36 large network blocks may also have
>    been inadvertent, the high concentration of technology and
>    financial services companies affected made the incident
>    "curious" to engineers at network monitoring service BGPmon.
>    What's more, the way some of the affected networks were
>    redirected indicated their underlying prefixes had been
>    manually inserted into BGP tables, most likely by someone at
>    Rostelecom, the Russian government-controlled telecom that
>    improperly announced ownership of the blocks.
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--



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