BGP Hijacking

BGP Hijacking

This is a class of attacks that use the BGP protocol as its method of attack. This falls into 3 categories:

1. Classification by Affected Prefix: In this class of hijacking attacks, we are primarily concerned with the IP prefixes that are advertised by BGP.
2. Exact prefix hijacking
3. Sub-prefix hijacking
4. BGP squatting
5. Classification by AS-Path announcement: In this class of attacks, an illegitimate AS announces the AS-path for a prefix for which it doesn’t have ownership rights.
6. Type-0 hijacking
7. Type-N hijacking
8. Type-U hijacking
9.  Classification by Data-Plane traffic manipulation: In this class of attacks, the attacker intercepts traffic between two users and manipulates it.
10. Blackholing attack
11. Man-in-the-middle attack (MM)
12. Imposture attack (IM)