Thursday, October 1, 2020

AS1221 (Telstra) BGP hijacks 266 ASNs in 51 countries

Surprised no one is talking about this...

On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 AS1221 - Telstra announced 472 prefixes in a BGP hijack event that affected 266 other ASNs in 50 countries, with the most damage rendered to the U.S. and UK based networks. Worldwide it affected more than 1680 IPv4 prefixes, creating almost 2000 path challenge conflicts.

via https://radar.qrator.net/blog/as1221-hijacking-266asns

ProtonMail's thoughts on the matter: https://protonmail.com/blog/bgp-hijacking-september-2020/



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