BGP Incidents in July - September 2022

Looking at the number of unique BGP route leakers and unique BGP hijackers, it seems that nothing is happening - what is far from the truth. 

Although the number of unique leakers is almost the same as in the previous quarter - with the difference of only 116 leaking ASes, and the number of unique BGP hijackers grew ⅓ QoQ, we're getting back to the reality of BGP incidents.

Remember, here, we are counting the total number and not the unique routing incidents - if one AS originates a route leak, that is distinguished as a separate one by our model - we put it in.

During July - September 2021 we have recorded 12103554 individual BGP route leaks - the number as high as it was in Jan - March 2022. And the reality is that the number of route leaks jumped back to where it was before the previous, somewhat anomalous quarter. 

The total BGP hijacks in July - September 2022 were 2545562 - less than 5% of Q2's astonishing 61M+ hijacks, but as we mentioned, in the previous quarter, the total hijack count was heavily affected by exclusively individual autonomous systems.

Now, let us look at the global incidents that are part of these statistics through each quarter month.

Reminder note: our team has a set of certain thresholds that separate global incidents from the rest. They include affected prefixes, affected autonomous systems, and the incident's distribution among routing tables.

Global BGP Route Leaks / BGP Hijacks in Q3 2022:

July: 0 / 1

August: 3 / 2

September: 3 / 0

We analyzes BGP paths data collected from more than 800 sessions, providing analytics and real-time incident monitoring to the registered and authenticated owners of Autonomous Systems. Our team  provides a user with historical data on AS connectivity (links), BGP routing anomalies, and network-related security issues.