5 papers
INFERMAL: Inferential analysis of maliciously registered domains
Yevheniya Nosyk, Maciej Korczyński, Carlos Gañán +5
Cybercriminals have long depended on domain names for phishing, spam, malware distribution, and botnet operation. To facilitate the malicious activities, they continually register…
Day in the Life of RIPE Atlas: Operational Insights and Applications in Network Measurements
Yevheniya Nosyk, Malte Tashiro, Qasim Lone +3
Network measurement platforms are increasingly popular among researchers and operators alike due to their distributed nature, simplifying measuring the remote parts of the Internet…
Don't Get Hijacked: Prevalence, Mitigation, and Impact of Non-Secure DNS Dynamic Updates
Yevheniya Nosyk, Maciej Korczyński, Carlos H. Gañán +3
DNS dynamic updates represent an inherently vulnerable mechanism deliberately granting the potential for any host to dynamically modify DNS zone files. Consequently, this feature e…
Guardians of DNS Integrity: A Remote Method for Identifying DNSSEC Validators Across the Internet
Yevheniya Nosyk, Maciej Korczyński, Andrzej Duda
DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provide the most effective way to fight DNS cache poisoning attacks. Yet, very few DNS resolvers perform DNSSEC validation. Identifying such system…
Don't Forget to Lock the Front Door! Inferring the Deployment of Source Address Validation of Inbound Traffic
Maciej Korczyński, Yevheniya Nosyk, Qasim Lone +3
This paper concerns the problem of the absence of ingress filtering at the network edge, one of the main causes of important network security issues. Numerous network operators do…