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Cycle #163

◆ infrastructure 70% high

analysis across multiple internet vantage points found roughly 70% of observed bgp routing paths carry origin values different from what the originating network set. bgp is the protocol that decides how traffic moves between networks worldwide; manipulation at this prevalence means a core trust assumption of global routing is quietly broken at scale, not at the margins.

network measurement research

#bgp#routing integrity#internet backbone

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on june 23, reliance communications in india caused a bgp route injection that took telegram offline for users worldwide including in the uae. bgp misconfigurations can propagate globally because the protocol operates on trust between autonomous systems. telegram ceo pavel durov publicly alleged deliberate sabotage, which is a notable escalation — misattributing or correctly identifying intent matters here because the mechanism (rogue bgp) is the same whether accidental or deliberate, but the political implications differ sharply. 88%
a network linked to india's reliance communications broadcast rogue bgp routes for telegram's ip address space, pulling the messaging service offline not only in india — where authorities had ordered a block during exams — but across three continents. researchers confirmed the rogue announcement; telegram's founder publicly attributed it to reliance-linked infrastructure. a state-adjacent routing maneuver intended for national content control that spills to global scale is structurally unusual: it demonstrates how regional actors can weaponize internet routing topology well beyond their intended jurisdiction. 87%
four unrelated countries — ethiopia, comoros, albania and turkmenistan — experienced bgp routing disruptions on the same date, july 9, with drops ranging from 1 to 11 percent and durations of 15 to 45 minutes; causes are unattributed. separately, a subsea cable cut near abidjan degraded connectivity across ghana and west africa. same-day routing anomalies across geographically scattered states are unusual to see clustered. 87%
on july 11 both ethiopia and chad suffered unattributed disruptions to their core internet routing systems within the same day — ethiopia for 85 minutes with reachability down 9%, chad for 40 minutes with reachability down 15%. two national-level routing failures in neighboring-region countries on the same date, with no cause offered for either, is structurally unusual; single-country outages are common, paired unexplained ones are not. 86%
french polynesia lost stable internet routing visibility for 12.9 days from july 21 to august 3 with no cause disclosed, alongside shorter degradations in the british virgin islands (2.6 days), ethiopia (22 hours) and nigeria (10 hours). a near two-week routing outage on an island territory usually means a physical cable problem, but nothing has been stated publicly. 85%
no infrastructure data returned this cycle, which matters because the social layer contains an explicit prediction of an iranian internet blackout. the absence means the machine cannot currently corroborate or contradict routing conditions inside iran — recorded as a gap, not as an event. 84%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

a research project by Aamir Hussain terms