Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory

Cloudflare analyzed anomalous routing events involving CANTV (AS8048) around January 2 and concluded they were consistent with a commonplace BGP route leak rather than evidence of a U.S. cyber operation or a man-in-the-middle attack, countering initial speculation. The analysis notes such leaks are frequent, that the observed routing would be a poor choice for MITM, and suggests stronger export policies and adoption of mechanisms like RFC 9234 to reduce future leaks.