[AusNOG] FYI : Attackers are accessing routers running on the border gateway protocol (BGP) and injecting additional hops

[Joshua D'Alton]

Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more, especially maliciously.

But then again I guess its a case of mutually assured destruction. Were
some government to seriously mess with it long-term, the whole internet
would fall apart quite rapidly, or at least get partitioned. And if a
company tried it, they'd hear the black helicopters quicker than Kim Dotcom
did.

Roland, I'd be interested to know if Arbor has seen 'DDoS' via BGP 'hacks'
like this, certainly it is quite easy to divert hundreds of Gbit of
traffic, perhaps... :)


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On Nov 24, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Heinz N <ausnog at equisoft.com.au> wrote:
>
> > First they attack SMTP then DNS, now BGP.
>
> BGP hijacking has been going on for many years (as have DNS and SMTP
> attacks), it isn't new at all.
>
> ;>
>
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