Slamming into China’s Great Firewall Unlike the previously reported 30-month event that routed Internet traffic on a roundabout path through China, traffic in Monday’s incident involving Google never arrived at its intended destination. Instead, as the following traceroute shows, the traffic terminated at an edge router inside China Telecom.

Google goes down after major BGP mishap routes traffic through China

“Google says it doesn’t believe leak was malicious despite suspicious appearances.”

Google lost control of several million of its IP addresses for more than an hour on Monday in an event that intermittently made its search and other services unavailable to many users and also caused problems for Spotify and other Google cloud customers. While Google said it had no reason to believe the mishap was a malicious hijacking attempt, the leak appeared suspicious to many, in part because it misdirected traffic to China Telecom, the Chinese government-owned provider that was recently caught improperly routing traffic belonging to a raft of Western carriers though mainland China.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/major-bgp-mishap-takes-down-google-as-traffic-improperly-travels-to-china/ … by @dangoodin001

Long and short of it….

Google, MainOne and Cloudflare

Looks like China used Nigeria’s Internet Exchange Point where from there with Russian help took over Googles and cloudflares traffic.

“China Telecom improperly accepted the route and announced it worldwide. The move by China Telecom, aka aka AS4809, in turn caused Russia-based Transtelecom, aka AS20485, and other large service providers to also follow the route.”

“China Telecom improperly accepted the Cloudflare route and announced it to its peers. Transtelecom accepted the route and other large service providers soon followed, causing the route to propagate worldwide.”

You can only imagine how much data and intelligence they sucked up and now are sifting through.