Nigeria

Historical telecommunications security milestones, vulnerabilities, wiretapping incidents, and signaling exploits recorded in Nigeria.

RECORDS INDEXED1

SPAN2018–2018

AVG SEVERITY9.3 / 10

Intercept Log — Nigeria

001 RECORDS

2018

Data

9.3

Amazon Route 53 BGP Hijack for Cryptocurrency Theft

Attackers announced rogue BGP routes for Amazon Route 53 IP prefixes through Russian and Nigerian ISP transit, hijacking DNS traffic for MyEtherWallet to steal $150,000 in cryptocurrency.