Russian telco hijacks internet traffic for Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and others

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-telco-hijacks-internet-traffic-for-google-aws-cloudflare-and-others/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet April 5, 2020

Earlier this week, traffic meant for more than 200 of the world's largest
content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud hosting providers was suspiciously
redirected through Rostelecom, Russia's state-owned telecommunications provider.

The incident affected more than 8,800 internet traffic routes from 200+
networks.

Impacted companies are a who's who in the cloud and CDN market, including big
names such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Digital
Ocean, Joyent, LeaseWeb, Hetzner, and Linode.

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