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AWS Route 53 BGP Hijack: What Kentik Saw

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In simple terms, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol that routes traffic on the Internet. During last week’s attack, the attacker was redirecting traffic that belonged to Amazon’s Route 53 DNS servers. Here we have the DNS clients sending their DNS queries to the hijacked blocks advertised by AS10297.