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I went back and looked up the event. Rostelecom has been behind a few of these. I might be conflating two of them. In 2017, Rostelecom grabbed financial & othe
by WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
I went back and looked up the event. Rostelecom has been behind a few of these. I might be conflating two of them.
In 2017, Rostelecom grabbed financial & other network data for a few minutes.
https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/rostelecom-route-leak-targets-ecommerce-services https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/rostelecom-route-leak-targ...
In 2020 Rostelecom announced lots of networks they didn't own and got that traffic for an hour. Early analysis felt it was accidental. Not sure about later analysis.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-telco-hijacks-internet-traffic-for-google-aws-cloudflare-and-others/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-telco-hijacks-internet...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789754
But 2 months ago, Rostelecom grabbed a chunk of Apple's network (which I missed)
https://cybernews.com/apple-network-traffic-went-through-russia-for-12-hours/ https://cybernews.com/apple-network-traffic-went-through-rus...