Russia's Rostelcom has tried to hack data from 200 of the world's largest content delivery companies
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Recently, Russia's Rostelcom tried to hack data from 200 of the world's largest content delivery companies. This is done through BGP hacking in a traditional practice. The hacking was done by transmitting 8 thousand 800 Internet routes through the Rostelcomb route for an hour to 200 large content delivery networks.
Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudfire, Godaddy, Digital Ocean, Joynet, LizWeb, Hetzner and Linode have suffered in the process.
What is BGP Hijacking?
The Broader Gateway Protocol is a process by which content from a server passes to a user. Routing is the way in which content will go to the Internet. Because of this, when we enter the address of a website on the Internet, it comes to us so quickly. BGP changes that path in the rewriting process. Sends content to the hacker's defined path. This can lead to latency, data can be hacked.How does it work
Let's think about our traffic system. Suppose you have ordered a product from Uttara. You know that the delivery will actually take 20 minutes on the straight road. But when the delivery arrived, some people in the street told the delivery man, "Don't go this way." The delivery man also believed in them and went in the way. It can be three things, a snatcher standing on that road can be snatched away or delayed delivery, and even if you show up the wrong way many times, the delivery will never reach you. There will only be wandering around Dhaka.
This is exactly what BGP is rewriting. BGP rerouting is a way of delivering traffic to a hacker standing in the middle or on the sidewalk. Occasionally, this act of innocence is often mistaken. This may be due to a typo in the ASN code.
This type of hacking is not very effective now because of HTTPS encryption. However, this rerouting process is not paired to create latency. The biggest users of this package are China Telecom, which does this extensively. Rostelcom has also done so before.
However, it seems that Rostelcom's BGP rerouting may be in error. But they can't be trusted because the company has done so before.
Experts say such attacks are likely to increase in the days ahead. With the increase in computing power, the encryption puzzle is now easier to solve. So the man-of-the-middle hacking technique of the 7th can be widely backed up.
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