Understanding the Stealthy BGP Hijacking Risk in the ROV Era (opens in new tab)

The partial deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) poses an unexpected security threat known as stealthy BGP hijacking, i.e., a particularly elusive form of BGP hijacking where malicious routes divert traffic without reaching (and thus alerting) the victims. This risk remains largely unexplored, with neither documented real-world incidents nor systematic characterization available. To bridge this gap, we formalize stealthy BGP hijacking and...