It's a lot easier if you can cause the traffic to hijack to take a circuitous route through the Internet... http://www.wired.com/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belarus-

It's a lot easier if you can cause the traffic to hijack to take a circuitous route through the Internet... http://www.wired.com/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belarus-iceland/ http://www.wired.com/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belarus-iceland/ or more recently: http://research.dyn.com/2015/03/uk-traffic-diverted-ukraine/ http://research.dyn.com/2015/03/uk-traffic-diverted-ukraine/