Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years

Oracle's Internet Intelligence division has confirmed today the findings of a recently published academic paper that accused China of 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries.' From a report: The research paper was authored by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University and it made quite a few waves online after it was published. Researchers accused China Telecom, one of China's biggest state-owned internet service providers, of hijacking and detouring internet traffic through its normally-closed internet infrastructure. Some security experts contested the research paper's findings because it didn't come from an authoritative voice in the world of internet BGP hijacks, but also because the paper touched on many politically sensitive topics, such as China's cyber-espionage activities and how China used BGP hijacks as a way to circumvent the China-US cyber pact of 2015. But today, Doug Madory, Director of Oracle's Internet Analysis division (formerly Dyn), confirmed that China Telecom has, indeed, engaged in internet traffic 'misdirection.' 'I don't intend to address the paper's claims around the motivations of these actions,' said Madori. 'However, there is truth to the assertion that China Telecom (whether intentionally or not) has misdirected internet traffic (including out of the United States) in recent years.'

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