Russia

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

RECORDS INDEXED2

SPAN1971–2020

AVG SEVERITY8.3 / 10

Intercept Log — Russia

002 RECORDS

1971

Voice

9.2

Operation Ivy Bells: Cold War Submarine Cable Tap

US Navy & NSA divers wrapped a 6-ton inductive recording pod around a submerged Soviet military cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, capturing traffic for nearly a decade.

2020

Data

7.5

Rostelecom BGP Hijack Diverts Akamai, Cloudflare and AWS Prefixes

On 1 April 2020 at about 19:28 UTC, Russian operator Rostelecom (AS12389) announced roughly 8,800 prefixes belonging to about 200 networks, including Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon AWS, Hetzner and DigitalOcean, for about an hour.