Bad actors as in the US gov? Suggesting they were using bgp to spy?
Comment on News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
zwerg@feddit.org 3 weeks agoI assume they mean Border Gateway Protocol. Its used to help define what network traffic goes where. This could mean traffic was being redirected to bad actor(s).
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
zwerg@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’m not an expert, but if BGP started routing traffic through U.S. services they could MITM traffic ( if it wasn’t properly secured), but they could also just DoS which might have been enough for the purposes at that time.
kinther@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You summed it up perfectly