The described attack is one of the more straight-forward applications of a BGP hijack, and as mentioned, not specific to Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency. The problem is ultimately with BGP, slow adoption of RPKI, and inconsistent certificate issuance/transparency practices. We will see definitely see more of this, because once the attacker accomplishes the BGP attack, the rest of the exploit is extremely simple. It doesn't rely on victims doing anything out of the normal course of operations.
But guess what? The Bitcoin network itself is _also_ vulnerable to BGP hijacking, but the attack vectors are much more complex and so we haven't seen many of these attacks yet. The literature is really interesting though, e.g. Apostolaki 2017 [0] and Tran 2020 [1].
Indeed, a number of internet services and applications are vulnerable to BGP hijacking and interception attacks, including TLS/digital certificates, anonymity systems such as Tor, and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
But guess what? The Bitcoin network itself is _also_ vulnerable to BGP hijacking, but the attack vectors are much more complex and so we haven't seen many of these attacks yet. The literature is really interesting though, e.g. Apostolaki 2017 [0] and Tran 2020 [1].
[0] https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/files/btc_hijack.pdf
[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=915...