4 papers
Contrastive Learning and Correlation Clustering for Sequences of Network Telescope Data
Jannik Presberger, Alexander Männel, Maynard Koch +3
Understanding activities of Internet scanners is challenging; it often requires identifying relationships between sources, a task for which semantic annotations are scarce. This wo…
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…
Forward to Hell? On the Potentials of Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders in Reflective Amplification Attacks
Maynard Koch, Florian Dolzmann, Thomas C. Schmidt +1
The DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Various countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting, and protocol…
A Detailed Measurement View on IPv6 Scanners and Their Adaption to BGP Signals
Isabell Egloff, Raphael Hiesgen, Maynard Koch +2
Scanners are daily visitors of public IPv4 hosts. Scanning IPv6 nodes successfully is still a challenge, which an increasing crowd of actors tries to master. In this paper, we anal…