Morning pedes,
I'm a sysadmin working for a small datacenter in Germany. Against 09:00 GMT we had calls from some of our customers, they were complaining about some service degradation: load times for websites slowed down, ssh connections got terminated, ftp traffic was slow.
Analyzing my systems led to no results, so I called my provider if there was an issue with our connection.
He said: "to make it short: the Internet is partially broken..." I said what? Yup, some issues with route announcements in the BGP routers around the world.
As I write this, he called me back to tell me the issue got solved. Some guy/group, whatever, was able to insert false route announcements at BGP level, this is insane.
Let's see what the day brings up, but this was pretty scary (well, for my customers and for my boss, for me it was pretty exciting). Eyes on.
Godspeed, frens
Thanks, that's what i've learned today. Had another call with the chief network engineer from our provider, he told me the same things you guys are talking about.
He also confirmed that it was a short lasting attack against german Telekom infrastructure. They solved it pretty quick, but it was widespread.
It seems to be an easy task with huge effects if you know what you have to do.