Cyber Threats•Jun 1, 2025
When Nations Hijack the Internet: A Deep Dive into State-Scale BGP Attacks and the Quantum Threat Ahead
Read about the internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)—built on an outdated trust model—enables state-level actors to reroute traffic for surveillance or disruption. The post highlights major campaigns by China and Russia, reviews historic cases (like Pakistan’s 2008 YouTube outage), and examines the spike in hijacks through 2024. It then explores how emerging quantum computing capabilities could magnify these threats by breaking current cryptography when traffic is intercepted.
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