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Spamhaus, the organization that runs one of the Internet's largest, accurate, and up-to-date spam list, is warning against a spike in network hijacking events. Network or BGP hijacking occurs when an ISP fraudulently announces to other service providers that an IP range is found on its network, when it is not. That ISP can then receive traffic destined for that range of IPs, but it can also send traffic in the name of the hijacked network. Spammers guilty for most network hijacks While receiving hijacked traffic might be of interest for nation-state actors, as Bruce Schneier warned last week, sending traffic from a hijacked network is a spammer's dream. Spamhaus says that in the past three years, BGP hijacks have grown in number, with most of these events occurring because of spammers, and not... ...