{"id":4624,"date":"2017-04-30T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T14:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2021-08-02T05:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:52:27","slug":"russian-telecom-may-intentionally-hijacked-internet-traffic-bound-mastercard-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russian-telecom-may-intentionally-hijacked-internet-traffic-bound-mastercard-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian telecom may have intentionally hijacked internet traffic bound for Mastercard, VISA, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 26, 2017, Rostelecom, a Russian telecom, hijacked large amounts\u00a0of sensitive network traffic from over a dozen financial institutions including Mastercard and VISA.\u00a0Rostelecom, one of the big four telecoms in Russia, did this by inaccurately announcing\u00a036 network\u00a0blocks as theirs through border gateway protocol (BGP) tables. This type of inaccurate announcement of network space and subsequent rerouting does happen by accident sometimes. However, the fact that over two dozen\u00a0international financial institutions were affected, targeted really, makes it seem like this action was not accidental. A little digging reveals that Rostelecom happens to be owned (49%) by the Russian government. What\u2019s more, multiple senior government officials\u00a0currently hold board seats at Rostelecom.<\/p>\n

Russian telecom hijacking of targeted financial Internet traffic is curious to say the least<\/h2>\n

BGPMon<\/a> called the hijacking \u201ccurious.\u201d Doug Madory from Dyn was more straightforward with his words; he told ArsTechnica<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI would classify this as quite suspicious. Typically accidental leaks appear more voluminous and indiscriminate. This would appear to be targeted to financial institutions. A typical cause of these errors [is] in some sort of internal traffic engineering, but it would seem strange that someone would limit their traffic engineering to mostly financial networks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rostelecom hasn\u2019t commented to media about the incident. What we know is that sensitive information from around the world was flowing into Russia for 5-7 minutes. This would have allowed Russians to see and manipulate any of that\u00a0traffic that was unencrypted at\u00a0that time; or,\u00a0at the least, see who was connecting and from where. Such information would be invaluable to hackers as it could not only reveal sensitive information but also the sources of financial transactions \u2013 who could then be targeted themselves.<\/p>\n

The institutions that were affected by this hijacking are (info via\u00a0BGPMon<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0 49002<\/td>\n\u00a0Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 3561<\/td>\n\u00a0Savvis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 41268<\/td>\n\u00a0LANTA Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 2559<\/td>\n\u00a0Visa International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 8255<\/td>\n\u00a0Euro-Information-Europeenne de Traitemen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 31627<\/td>\n\u00a0Servicios Para Medios De Pago S.A.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 701<\/td>\n\u00a0MCI Communications Services, Inc. d\/b\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 3259<\/td>\n\u00a0Docapost Bpo SAS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 3303<\/td>\n\u00a0Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 3741<\/td>\n\u00a0IS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 5630<\/td>\n\u00a0Worldline SA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 9162<\/td>\n\u00a0The State Educational Institution of Hig<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 9930<\/td>\n\u00a0TIME dotCom Berhad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0 12257<\/td>\n\u00a0EMC Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0 12954<\/td>\n\u00a0SIA S.p.A.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 15468<\/td>\n\u00a038, Teatralnaya st.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0 15835<\/td>\n\u00a0ROSNIIROS Russian Institute for Public N<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 15919<\/td>\n\u00a0Servicios de Hosting en Internet S.A.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 18101<\/td>\n\u00a0Reliance Communications Ltd.DAKC MUMBAI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 25410<\/td>\n\u00a0Bank Zachodni WBK S.A.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 26380<\/td>\n\u00a0MasterCard Technologies LLC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0 30060<\/td>\n\u00a0VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 34960<\/td>\n\u00a0Netcetera AG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Russian government wants to\u00a0do whatever they want on the Internet<\/h2>\n

Moscow, Russia even intends to be the first 5G connected city<\/a> by 2020 \u2013 but all of that data will be stored by Russian telecoms under Russia\u2019s Big Brother Law. Over the last year, Russia has shown their true colors when it comes to Internet rights:\u00a0they\u2019ve evicted Amnesty International<\/a>, and coerced some companies like Twitter<\/a> to move servers to Russia. The Russian government has even convinced some VPN companies<\/a> to censor what the government wants. On the contrary, Private Internet Access has removed all servers from Russia following a\u00a0separate incidence of questionable Russian seizure in July of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On April 26, 2017, Rostelecom, a Russian telecom, hijacked large amounts\u00a0of sensitive network traffic from over a dozen financial institutions including Mastercard and VISA.\u00a0Rostelecom, one of the big four telecoms in Russia, did this by inaccurately announcing\u00a036 network\u00a0blocks as theirs through border gateway protocol (BGP) tables. 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