BGP

Suspicious network resurrections

***UPDATE** Dec 1st 2020: A big thank you to Telia Carrier, Hurricane Electric and GTT for taking swift and positive action in shutting down the related announcements.* We believe there is a serious issue relating to the equivalent of 56 “/20” networks, with a corresponding 230k IPv4 addresses. The total...

Network hijacking - the low down

Network hijacking involves the announcing or re-routing of Internet protocol (IP) addresses without authorization from the owner of those addresses. When hijacking is done intentionally, it is usually for some type of nefarious or illegal purpose and the consequences can be far reaching for organizations whose networks are hijacked. There...

Doug Madory | Shutting down the BGP Hijack Factory - Bitcanal

A link to Doug Madory's "Shutting down the BGP Hijack Factory".

Fighting abuse at the edge

Anti-abuse at the network edge: From two tribes to one team. Take a look at org charts, international standards, conferences and forums…you will observe there are two tribes; one for the ‘network’ the other for ‘applications’. It’s a distinction that’s embedded in Information...

Celebrating The First Birthday Of The Spamhaus BGPf

In June 2012, Spamhaus launched the Spamhaus BGP feed (BGPf), a new service designed to protect organizations, network owners and network providers from malicious traffic. A year has passed since the Spamhaus BGPf was released and we would like to...

Spamhaus Releases BGP feed (BGPf) and Botnet C&C list (BGPCC)

Geneva, 12 June 2012 Today the Spamhaus Project announces the release of a new service -- the Spamhaus BGP feed (BGPf). The BGPf serves three Spamhaus lists by using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). It is intended to be used primarily by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), web hosting providers, and...