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Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency
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- mantas 8y agoTransaction reversal would be nice, huh?
- frockington 8y agoIt's fascinating to watch cryptocurrency go through many of the same pitfalls that early banking went through. It seems like many of the problems crypto faces could be solved by opening a history book.
- rlpb 8y agoIt's interesting to note that, although in this case the HTTPS certificate presented by the attackers wasn't valid, they may have been able to acquire an apparently legitimate certificate if the misrouting's effect extended to the infrastructure of a certificate authority.
- sajal83 8y agohttps://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5adf2844ecbe40692e003ad2/ https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5adf2844ecbe40692e003ad... Some traceroutes captured during the incident. The results that show "Target unreachable" were the ones seeing the hijacked paths.
- merricksb 8y agoOngoing discussion - posted 19 hours ago and still high up on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914698