Russian Telco Hijacked Internet Traffic of Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and Others

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Last week, traffic meant for more than 200 of the world’s largest content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud hosting providers was suspiciously redirected through Rostelecom, Russia’s state-owned telecommunications provider. From a report: The incident affected more than 8,800 internet traffic routes from 200+ networks, and lasted for about an hour. Impacted companies are a who’s who in the cloud and CDN market, including big names such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Digital Ocean, Joyent, LeaseWeb, Hetzner, and Linode.