Comment by cogman10
8 months ago
Would make sense. I think the last time I saw this sort of thing it was BGP causing a bunch of traffic to route through Iran or china IIRC.
8 months ago
Would make sense. I think the last time I saw this sort of thing it was BGP causing a bunch of traffic to route through Iran or china IIRC.
There was also an older instance with China https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/experts-detailed-how-ch...
I vaguely recall that incident. But it did not feel like it affected this many services.
At the same time I have not noticed anything being down firsthand. I am in Europe.
Here's the case [1]. Looks like they targeted a single /24 so that's likely why it wasn't a bigger issue.
[1] https://bishopfox.com/blog/bgp-hijacking-technical-post-mort...
so this is related to Israel's escalation that everyone is expecting?
The Pentagon Pizza Report has been having a lot of activity the past 24 hours. Maybe just a coincidence