China Telecom’s Ace in the Hole: BGP Hijacking "China Telecom (CT) entered North American networks at the beginning of the 2000s, and has since grown to have 1

China Telecom’s Ace in the Hole: BGP Hijacking "China Telecom (CT) entered North American networks at the beginning of the 2000s, and has since grown to have 10 PoPs, eight in the US and two in Canada, spanning both coasts and all the major exchange points in the US. Few other non-American ISPs has such a wide-spread presence on US soil." "Using these numerous PoPs, CT has already relatively seamlessly hijacked domestic US and crossUS traffic and redirected it to China over days, weeks, and months as demonstrated in the examples below. The patterns of traffic revealed in traceroute research7 suggest repetitive IP hijack attacks committed by China Telecom. While one may argue such attacks can always be explained by ‘normal’ BGP behavior, these in particular suggest malicious intent, precisely because of their unusual transit characteristics – namely the lengthened routes and the abnormal durations." :s/CT/Huawei/ Source: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=mca https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...