Orange Spain Faces BGP Traffic Hijack After RIPE Account Hacked by Malware

Mobile network operator Orange Spain suffered an internet outage for several hours on January 3 after a threat actor used administrator credentials captured by means of stealer malware to hijack the border gateway protocol (BGP) traffic. “The Orange account in the IP network coordination center (RIPE) has suffered improper access that has affected the browsing of some of our customers,”

Source: The Hacker News

 


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