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Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didnt own

Italian Web host Aruba S.p.A. fraudulently announced its ownership of 256 IP addresses into the global routing system. The move came under the direction of Hacking Team and the Special Operations Group of the Italian National Military Police. The hijacking came after the IP addresses became unreachable under its rightful owner Santrex, the “bullet-proof” Web hosting provider that catered to criminals and went out of business in October 2013. It’s the latest to raise troubling questions about BGP, the core Internet routing mechanism that’s based on trust.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/hacking-team-orchestrated-brazen-bgp-hack-to-hijack-ips-it-didnt-own/

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