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Route Leaks

Redirection or concentration of traffic within an intermediary network that should not, under normal circumstances, be present in the route. Smaller operators could incidentally redirect onto themselves traffic flows from the backbone networks or entire continents. Consequences of a route leak include increased latency, traffic loss and substantial degradation of connection quality. As a result of such leak both transit operators and service end-users suffer.

Hijacks

illegitimate network prefixes announcement into BGP, allowing to hijack the traffic. Malfunctor, with the help of phishing sites, could attain the traffic of a target, analyze it and search for passwords, financial and personal data.

Bogons

announcement of prefixes and autonomous system numbers into BGP reserved for other purposes and not supposed to be in the routing tables. Such an event outcome varies from the local network becoming available to an outside user to the entire network's unavailability.