{"id":365474,"date":"2026-06-18T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=365474"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:50:07","slug":"bgp-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bgp-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"BGP hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Telegram was briefly restricted by the Union government,the messaging platform\u2019s founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, alleged that access to the app was being compromised through a \u201crogue method\u201d called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About BGP hijacking<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nist.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2017\/07\/14\/site-diagrams.png?resize=308%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Example of a BGP Route Hijack\" width=\"308\" height=\"173\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the <\/span><b>Internet\u2019s routing system.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It tells <\/span><b>networks across the world how to reach specific IP addresses.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>It was developed in the late 1980s.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>How it works:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every major telecom operator, cloud provider, content delivery network and internet service provider runs an Autonomous System (AS), <\/span><b>a large network identified by a unique number.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BGP is the <\/span><b>protocol which these networks use to tell how traffic through these networks should reach a specific IP address (destination).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither the destination nor the route is authenticated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without BGP, networks<\/span><b> would not know where to send data once it left their own systems,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> making global internet connectivity virtually impossible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>BGP hijack: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If <\/span><b>a network accidentally publishes incorrect routing information or deliberately announces routes that do not belong to it, traffic can be redirected <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through the wrong path. <strong>It is commonly known as a BGP hijack.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats associated: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BGP hijacks can <\/span><b>expose personal information, enable theft, extortion, and state-level espionage, and disrupt security-critical transactions, including in the financial sector.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: After Telegram was briefly restricted by the Union government,the messaging platform\u2019s founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, alleged that access to the app was being compromised through a \u201crogue method\u201d called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking.\u00a0 About BGP hijacking The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the Internet\u2019s routing system.\u00a0 It tells networks across the world&hellip; 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