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Autonomous System

AS8978ASN-HOLYSEE Holy See Secretariat of State Department of Telecommunications(VA)

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AS8978 is an Autonomous System operated by ASN-HOLYSEE Holy See Secretariat of State Department of Telecommunications and registered in VA. As of Wed, 20 May 2026 21:57:48 GMT, it announces 3 routed IP prefixes and peers with 3 other Autonomous Systems in the WhisperGraph BGP dataset.

Nutrition Label

WHISPER CANON · AS8978Routing diversity3.0/10Peering density2.4/10MOAS conflict✓ noneThreat-feed listingsWHOIS transparencyResolver footprintcanon.whisper.security/asn/8978

Routing footprint

AS8978 announces 3 distinct routed prefixes. The 3-prefix sample below links to per-prefix pages with full conflict and reverse-DNS detail.

Peering ecosystem

3 distinct peers via BGP. The first 3 are listed below.

Peer ASNOperatorCountry
AS174COGENT-174 - Cogent Communications, LLCUS
AS61160RIX-SERVICE-AS Rheintal IX Service ASVA
AS12874FASTWEBIT

Blast radius

Approximate count of dependent hostnames if AS8978 disappeared from the routing table.

~1 hostnames depend on this network.Sampled from 10 prefixes, snapshot Wed, 20 May 2026 21:57:48 GMT.

MOAS / hijack watch

Prefixes routed by AS8978 that another Autonomous System also announces. A non-empty list is one of the strongest BGP-hijack signals available without active probes.

No active MOAS conflicts. Every prefix announced by AS8978 is unique to AS8978 in the current routing snapshot.

Threat posture

Related pages

Pivot deeper into the graph from AS8978.

Cypher and MCP

Reproduce the headline metric directly against graph.whisper.security:

MATCH (a:ASN {name: "AS8978"})-[:HAS_NAME]->(n:ASN_NAME)
OPTIONAL MATCH (a)-[:HAS_COUNTRY]->(c:COUNTRY)
RETURN a.name AS asn, n.name AS operator, c.name AS country

Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.