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exploiting-bgp-hijacking-vulnerabilities
Analyzes and simulates BGP hijacking scenarios in authorized lab environments to assess route origin validation, RPKI deployment, and BGP monitoring defenses against prefix hijacking and route leak attacks on internet routing infrastructure.
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# Exploiting BGP Hijacking Vulnerabilities
## When to Use
- Assessing an organization's exposure to BGP prefix hijacking and route leak attacks
- Testing RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) deployment and route origin validation effectiveness
- Validating BGP monitoring and alerting systems detect unauthorized route announcements
- Simulating BGP hijacking in isolated lab environments to train network operations teams
- Evaluating ISP prefix filtering and route origin authorization (ROA) configurations
**Do not use** to perform actual BGP hijacking on the live internet, against BGP peers without authorization, or to disrupt real internet routing infrastructure. BGP attacks on production systems are illegal and can cause widespread internet outages.
## Most Often Missed & How to Confirm
- **Route leak vs. origin hijack (most-missed):** a leak keeps the *correct* origin AS (RPKI-Valid) but propagates the prefix over a wrong, longer path — ROV does **not** block it. Don't report "RPKI protects us" after only testing exact-origin hijacks; explicitly test a customer re-advertising a provider prefix.