HOW 50% OF TELCO ORANGE SPAIN’S TRAFFIC GOT HIJACKED — A WEAK PASSWORD

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This article describes how Telco Orange Spain experienced an outage due to a BGP hijack that resulted in a 50% drop in traffic from Orange Spain customers. The threat actor gained access to Orange's RIPE account, which manages internet IP addresses. The account had weak security measures, such as no two-step authentication and a lack of password policy.