Security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. China Telecom is currently present in North American networks with 10 points-of-presence (PoPs) The telco company leverages the PoPs to hijack traffic through the Internet. In April 2010 China Telecom hijacked 15% of the Internet traffic for 18 minutes, experts speculate it was a large-scale experiment for controlling the traffic.”]
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