How 3ve’s BGP hijackers eluded the Internet—and made $29M

Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Getty) Over the past decade, many attackers have exploited design weaknesses in the Internet’s global routing system. Most commonly, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is abused to divert gigabytes, or possibly even petabytes, of high-value traffic to ISPs inside Russia or China, sometimes for years at a time, so that the […]