AMAZON WEB SERVICE AGAIN PROVEN TO BE THE MOST HACKED AND INSECURE ISP ON EARTH
Hijack of Amazon’s internet domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours unnoticed
Between 11am until 1pm UTC today, DNS traffic — the phone book of the internet, routing you to your favourite websites — was hijacked by an unknown actor.
The attackers used BGP — a key protocol used for routing internet traffic around the world — to reroute traffic to Amazon’s Route 53 service, the largest commercial cloud provider who count major websites such as Twitter.com as customers.
They re-routed DNS traffic using a man in the middle attack using a server at Equinix in Chicago.
From there, they served traffic for over two hours.
This would allow them to intercept traffic globally across the internet to Amazon Route 53 customers.