A routing change directed traffic bound for Google through Nigeria, Russia and China on Nov. 12. Google says it is investigating the re-routing of traffic for its cloud services. Some U.S. users may have been bounced through other countries before reaching Google’s servers. BGP is an open standard used by all ISPs, but experts have long warned that it is particularly vulnerable to malicious manipulation because it’s an open system. The internet is in desperate need of a security overhaul, experts say.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/who-hijacked-googles-web-traffic-a-11699