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There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)

submitted 10 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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[–] drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

Can someone explain to me what security issues BGP has? I've never looked into this aspect of networking and I only kinda know what BGP is supposed to be doing.

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[–] jane232@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

One option is to hijack a prefix by announcing a more specific one. This should then route traffic to the more specific prefix to your AS. You can then analyse and forward the traffic, attempt to impersonate a server within this range or simply drop the incoming packets.

As the author described, this case might be a bit more tricky, as BGP prefers shorter routes to longer ones. However, it seems that some longer-than-necessary routes were in use.

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