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20162025
most citedA Survey on Honeypot Software and Data Analysis

128 citations · 300 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.NI2025

Scanning the IPv6 Internet Using Subnet-Router Anycast Probing

Maynard Koch, Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki +2

Identifying active IPv6 addresses is challenging. Various methods emerged to master the measurement challenge in this huge address space, including hitlists, new probing techniques…

cs.NI2024★ 4 cited

ReACKed QUICer: Measuring the Performance of Instant Acknowledgments in QUIC Handshakes

Jonas Mücke, Marcin Nawrocki, Raphael Hiesgen +2

In this paper, we present a detailed performance analysis of QUIC instant ACK, a standard-compliant approach to reduce waiting times during the QUIC connection setup in common CDN…

cs.CR2024★ 19 cited

The Age of DDoScovery: An Empirical Comparison of Industry and Academic DDoS Assessments

Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Marinho Barcellos +14

Motivated by the impressive but diffuse scope of DDoS research and reporting, we undertake a multistakeholder (joint industry-academic) analysis to seek convergence across the best…

cs.CR2023★ 5 cited

Pool Inference Attacks on Local Differential Privacy: Quantifying the Privacy Guarantees of Apple's Count Mean Sketch in Practice

Andrea Gadotti, Florimond Houssiau, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai +1

Behavioral data generated by users' devices, ranging from emoji use to pages visited, are collected at scale to improve apps and services. These data, however, contain fine-grained…

cs.CR2023★ 11 cited

SoK: A Data-driven View on Methods to Detect Reflective Amplification DDoS Attacks Using Honeypots

Marcin Nawrocki, John Kristoff, Raphael Hiesgen +3

In this paper, we revisit the use of honeypots for detecting reflective amplification attacks. These measurement tools require careful design of both data collection and data analy…

cs.NI2022★ 16 cited

On the Interplay between TLS Certificates and QUIC Performance

Marcin Nawrocki, Pouyan Fotouhi Tehrani, Raphael Hiesgen +3

In this paper, we revisit the performance of the QUIC connection setup and relate the design choices for fast and secure connections to common Web deployments. We analyze over 1M W…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Waiting for QUIC: Passive Measurements to Understand QUIC Deployments

Jonas Mücke, Marcin Nawrocki, Raphael Hiesgen +6

QUIC experiences a rapid adoption since its standardization in 2021, and hypergiants configure their infrastructure to optimize for QUIC performance. In this paper, we introduce a…

cs.NI2022★ 9 cited

Securing name resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP

Martine S. Lenders, Christian Amsüss, Cenk Gündogan +3

In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and analysis of DNS over CoAP (DoC), a new proposal for secure and privacy-friendly name resolution of constrained IoT devices…

cs.CR2022★ 33 cited

The Race to the Vulnerable: Measuring the Log4j Shell Incident

Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

The critical remote-code-execution (RCE) Log4Shell is a severe vulnerability that was disclosed to the public on December 10, 2021. It exploits a bug in the wide-spread Log4j libra…

cs.NI2021★ 21 cited

Transparent Forwarders: An Unnoticed Component of the Open DNS Infrastructure

Marcin Nawrocki, Maynard Koch, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

In this paper, we revisit the open DNS (ODNS) infrastructure and, for the first time, systematically measure and analyze transparent forwarders, DNS components that transparently r…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

Spoki: Unveiling a New Wave of Scanners through a Reactive Network Telescope

Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Alistair King +3

Large-scale Internet scans are a common method to identify victims of a specific attack. Stateless scanning like in ZMap has been established as an efficient approach to probing at…

cs.CR2021★ 28 cited

The Far Side of DNS Amplification: Tracing the DDoS Attack Ecosystem from the Internet Core

Marcin Nawrocki, Mattijs Jonker, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

In this paper, we shed new light on the DNS amplification ecosystem, by studying complementary data sources, bolstered by orthogonal methodologies. First, we introduce a passive at…

cs.NI2021★ 22 cited

QUICsand: Quantifying QUIC Reconnaissance Scans and DoS Flooding Events

Marcin Nawrocki, Raphael Hiesgen, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

In this paper, we present first measurements of Internet background radiation originating from the emerging transport protocol QUIC. Our analysis is based on the UCSD network teles…

cs.NI2019

Uncovering Vulnerable Industrial Control Systems from the Internet Core

Marcin Nawrocki, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch

Industrial control systems (ICS) are managed remotely with the help of dedicated protocols that were originally designed to work in walled gardens. Many of these protocols have bee…

cs.CR2016★ 128 cited

A Survey on Honeypot Software and Data Analysis

Marcin Nawrocki, Matthias Wählisch, Thomas C. Schmidt +2

In this survey, we give an extensive overview on honeypots. This includes not only honeypot software but also methodologies to analyse honeypot data.