BGP routing incidents in 2014, malicious or not?

Over the last year we have seen and written about numerous BGP routing incidents that looked out of the ordinary, straight-up suspicious or were just configuration mistakes. In this blog post we will highlight a few of them and look at the impact and cause of each of the observed incidents and try to determine […] Continue reading BGP routing incidents in 2014, malicious or not?

BGP hijack incident by Syrian Telecommunications Establishment

The Syrian national Telecommunications Establishment (STE) has been in the news numerous times over the last few years, mostly because of the long lasting large scale Internet outages in Syria. This morning however we observed a new incident involving the two Autonomous systems for STE (AS29386 and AS29256). Starting at 08:33 UTC we detected  that hundreds of […] Continue reading BGP hijack incident by Syrian Telecommunications Establishment