Here are more details on the AS that's doing the hijacking: <a href="http://ipinfo.io/AS12389" rel="nofollow">http://ipinfo.io/AS12389</a><p>They have 78 other ASNs too (search for Rostelecom at <a href="http://ipinfo.io/countries/ru" rel="nofollow">http://ipinfo.io/countries/ru</a>)
BGP is extraordinarily vulnerable. The last paragraph of this article does a good job highlighting the risks of the status quo.<p>"Such hijacks underscore the implicit trust governments and corporations all over the world place in BGP routing announcements. For years, engineers have proposed a variety of measures to ensure service providers can announce only those networks they're authorized to carry. At the moment, however, there is no authoritative way to do so. Dyn, BGPmon, and similar services do a good job detecting when unauthorized announcements are made, but those detections inevitably come after improper redirections or hijackings have already occurred"