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Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency

by sajal83 on 4/25/18, 10:05 AM with 5 comments

• by merricksb on 4/25/18, 12:50 PM

  Ongoing discussion - posted 19 hours ago and still high up on the front page:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914698

• by sajal83 on 4/25/18, 11:33 AM

  https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5adf2844ecbe40692e003ad...

  Some traceroutes captured during the incident. The results that show "Target unreachable" were the ones seeing the hijacked paths.

• by rlpb on 4/25/18, 11:28 AM

  It's interesting to note that, although in this case the HTTPS certificate presented by the attackers wasn't valid, they may have been able to acquire an apparently legitimate certificate if the misrouting's effect extended to the infrastructure of a certificate authority.

• by mantas on 4/25/18, 11:25 AM

  Transaction reversal would be nice, huh?