More than 8,800 internet traffic routes from over 200 content delivery networks and cloud providers were redirected through telecommunications provider Rostelecom in a Border Gateway Protocol hijack, ZDNet reports. Impacted companies include Google, Amazon, Facebook and GoDaddy. The article states BGP hijacks are dangerous “because it lets the hijacker log traffic and attempt to analyze and decrypt it at a later date when the encryption used to secure it has weakened due to advances in cryptography sciences.”
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