Researchers discovered BGP hijacking attacks targeting payment processing systems and using new tricks to maximize the attackers hold on DNS servers. Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Oracle Dyn, previously saw border gateway protocol (BGP) hijacking attacks in April 2018 and has seen them continue through July. The first attack targeted an Amazon DNS
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One of the crucial underlying protocols of the global internet — and many other networks today — is the Border… Gateway Protocol. Now in version 4, BGP provides reachability and loop-free paths for just about every corner of the world in computer networking terms — from data centers and software-defined WANs to the fabrics of