Infostealer malware, weak password leaves Orange Spain RIPE for plucking

January 4, 2024 at 08:18AM The massive outage at Orange Spain, affecting around half its network’s traffic, was caused by an infostealer malware gaining access to an employee’s account with the weak password “ripeadmin.” This breach allowed an attacker operating under the alias “Snow” to manipulate the network’s border gateway protocol (BGP) traffic. The incident … Read more

Hacker hijacks Orange Spain RIPE account to cause BGP havoc

January 3, 2024 at 02:46PM Orange Spain experienced an internet outage due to a hacker breaching its RIPE account and misconfiguring BGP routing and RPKI settings. This allowed the hacker to divert traffic to malicious destinations. The hacker, known as ‘Snow,’ disabled RPKI, causing a performance issue. Orange Spain is restoring services and investigating the … Read more