Type-N hijacking
This is a form of BGP Hijacking where the attacking AS announces an illegitimate path for a prefix that it does not own to create a fake route between different AS’s. For example, {AS2, ASx, ASy, AS1 – 10.0.0.0/23} denotes a fake path between AS2 and AS1, where there is no link between AS2 and ASx. The N denotes the position of the rightmost fake link in the illegitimate announcement, e.g. {AS2, ASx, ASy, AS1 – 10.0.0.0/23} is a Type-2 hijacking.