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Bitcoins Stolen Via Bogus Border Gateway Protocol Broadcasts

09
Aug
2014

An unknown entity has been discovered to use a fake Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) broadcast to absorb traffic from 51 crypto-curency mining pools at 19 hosting companies, which includes Amazon, Digital Ocean, OVH, and other large hosting services.Researchers at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) found that cybercriminals conducted this activity between February and May, […]

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Google’s Public DNS Hijacked for 22 Minutes

17
Mar
2014

On Sunday, BGPmon, a network monitoring and routing security company that monitors the Internet for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attacks, revealed that Googles public DNS service had been hijacked. The attackers hijacked the 8.8.8.8/32 DNS server for approximately 22 minutes. According to BGPmon, networks in Brazil and Venezuela were impacted. A screenshot published by the […]

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