Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic

Here are more details on the AS that's doing the hijacking: http://ipinfo.io/AS12389

They have 78 other ASNs too (search for Rostelecom at http://ipinfo.io/countries/ru)

BGP is extraordinarily vulnerable. The last paragraph of this article does a good job highlighting the risks of the status quo.

"Such hijacks underscore the implicit trust governments and corporations all over the world place in BGP routing announcements. For years, engineers have proposed a variety of measures to ensure service providers can announce only those networks they're authorized to carry. At the moment, however, there is no authoritative way to do so. Dyn, BGPmon, and similar services do a good job detecting when unauthorized announcements are made, but those detections inevitably come after improper redirections or hijackings have already occurred"

Whats it going to take it get Russia cut off from the rest of the internet?

courage

Why on earth would you want to do that?

Whats it going to take it get Russia cut off from the rest of the internet?

I would think that the better question to ask would be "What's it going to take to improve BGP" - but to each their own.