Is there any chance that any of you might be persuaded to have a
word or two with either or both of the upstreams for AS34991,
specifically with respect to the fact that that whole and entire AS
has quite obviously been hijacked, and that it is currently being
used and abused to announce a total of 20 completely and transparently
bogus routes into various bits of IPv4 space that are allocated to
various parties within the nation of Columbia, including but not
limited to the National University thereof?
I have already attempted to make contact with both upstreams in this
case with no success and no reply so far, perhaps because I am not
a european, or perhaps because I myself am not a network operator,
or perhaps because I do not speak (or write) bulgarian.
Below is a listing of the currently hijacked routes. Please note that
the hijacker in this case quite obviously planned this all, quite
carefully, and in advance of the actual hijackings, and he tried
(and succeded!) to effectively legitimize all of these bogus route
announcement via the simple and easy ruse of also pre-creating a set
of matching, and equally bogus route objects within the RIPE data base.
(As I learned the last time a case like this came up, the RIPE community,
in its infinite wisdom, had made it so easy to create such route objects
in the data base, with no authority or authorization whatsoever, that
any baboon with a keyboard and a pulse may easily do so.)
Of course, as the more observant among you may note, the domain name
used for the contact email address for AS34991 has recently been
re-registered, presumably after having lapsed. This indicates rather
clearly, I think, that it is not merely the IPv4 blocks listed below
that have been and are being hijacked, but also the AS34991 ASN itself.
covfefe
P.S. For the record, yes, some of the hijacked blocks in this case have
already been sub-leased out to snowshoe spammers, and are being actively
used for snowshoe spamming as we speak.
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152.204.132.0/24 -- Columbia
152.204.133.0/24 -- Columbia
152.231.25.0/24 -- Columbia
152.231.28.0/24 -- Columbia
168.176.187.0/24 -- Columbia, National University of
168.176.192.0/24 -- Columbia, National University of
168.176.194.0/24 -- Columbia, National University of
168.176.218.0/24 -- Columbia, National University of
168.176.219.0/24 -- Columbia, National University of
179.1.71.0/24 -- Columbia
181.57.40.0/24 -- Columbia
186.113.13.0/24 -- Columbia
186.113.15.0/24 -- Columbia
186.147.230.0/24 -- Columbia
190.90.31.0/24 -- Columbia
190.90.88.0/24 -- Columbia
200.1.65.0/24 -- Columbia
200.14.44.0/24 -- Columbia
200.24.3.0/24 -- Columbia
200.24.5.0/24 -- Columbia
