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Networking 8 min

How Hackers Hijacked Amazon Route 53 and Stole $152,000 in Ethereum: The MyEtherWallet BGP Attack

How a 2018 BGP hijack redirected Amazon Route 53 traffic, harvested private keys from MyEtherWallet users, and stole $152K in Ethereum — BGP and DNS weaknesses chained.

#bgp #dns #security #rpki

May 24, 2025

Networking 6 min

The Day Pakistan Telecom Took Down YouTube: A BGP Hijack Postmortem

How a government censorship order, a leaked more-specific route, and one upstream provider that didn't filter turned into a global internet outage that took YouTube offline for nearly two hours in 2008 — and what it proved about BGP's fundamental trust problem.

#bgp #security #rpki #route-hijack

May 23, 2025

#incident

How Hackers Hijacked Amazon Route 53 and Stole $152,000 in Ethereum: The MyEtherWallet BGP Attack

The Day Pakistan Telecom Took Down YouTube: A BGP Hijack Postmortem

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