Orange Spain Faces BGP Traffic Hijack After RIPE Account Hacked by Malware

Orange Spain experienced a BGP hijack on January 3 after an attacker used administrator credentials exfiltrated by Raccoon Stealer to modify RIPE account routing, resulting in major browsing outages and about a 50% traffic loss; the report highlights the malware infection, a weak password ("ripeadmin"), and the absence of mandatory 2FA at RIPE as enabling factors while RIPE investigates and urges account security improvements.