It is really important that ever organization grasp the risk from BGP Hijacking. The CIO, CISO, Security Professional, Network Engineers, and all others in the organization must understand that the BGP Hijacking Threat to their organization is Real. Miscreants have BGP hijacked critical resources away from the owning organization and caused damage. These BGP Hijacks have happened and will happen again. It will be a while before we have a massive deployment of BGPSEC and RPKI throughout all telecom and the world. So taking action now to minimize the risk is critical.
Where do we start our “BGP Hijack Knowledge Empowerment?” Fortunately, we have peers on the Internet who explain it for us.
First, look back at the BGP, RTBH, and other training videos from the early 2000s @ NANOG, APRICOT, and RIPE. The concept of moving traffic around the Internet is core to the Internet.
Nick Feamster has a good YouTube explanation on the Kapala Attack on BGP that is worth watching.