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Routing Attacks in Ethereum PoS: A Systematic Exploration
Constantine Doumanidis, Maria Apostolaki
With the promise of greater decentralization and sustainability, Ethereum transitioned from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. The new consensus p…
Network Function Capacity Reconnaissance by Remote Adversaries
Aqsa Kashaf, Aidan Walsh, Maria Apostolaki +2
There is anecdotal evidence that attackers use reconnaissance to learn the capacity of their victims before DDoS attacks to maximize their impact. The first step to mitigate capaci…
FB: A Flexible Buffer Management Scheme for Data Center Switches
Maria Apostolaki, Vamsi Addanki, Manya Ghobadi +1
Today, network devices share buffer across priority queues to avoid drops during transient congestion. While cost-effective most of the time, this sharing can cause undesired inter…
Securing Internet Applications from Routing Attacks
Yixin Sun, Maria Apostolaki, Henry Birge-Lee +4
Attacks on Internet routing are typically viewed through the lens of availability and confidentiality, assuming an adversary that either discards traffic or performs eavesdropping.…
Performance-Driven Internet Path Selection
Maria Apostolaki, Ankit Singla, Laurent Vanbever
Internet routing can often be sub-optimal, with the chosen routes providing worse performance than other available policy-compliant routes. This stems from the lack of visibility i…
SABRE: Protecting Bitcoin against Routing Attacks
Maria Apostolaki, Gian Marti, Jan Müller +1
Routing attacks remain practically effective in the Internet today as existing countermeasures either fail to provide protection guarantees or are not easily deployable. Blockchain…
Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies
Maria Apostolaki, Aviv Zohar, Laurent Vanbever
As the most successful cryptocurrency to date, Bitcoin constitutes a target of choice for attackers. While many attack vectors have already been uncovered, one important vector has…