5 papers
Country-in-the-Middle: Measuring Paths between People and their Governments
Alisha Ukani, Katherine Izhikevich, Shambhavi Mittal +5
Understanding where Internet services are hosted, and how users reach them, has captured the interest of government regulators and others concerned with the privacy of data flows.…
Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery
Max Gao, Michael Collins, Ricky Mok +1
Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify pre…
Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes
Hammas Bin Tanveer, Wai Sun Chan, Ricky K. P. Mok +6
We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6…
Registration, Detection, and Deregistration: Analyzing DNS Abuse for Phishing Attacks
Kyungchan Lim, Raffaele Sommese, Mattis Jonker +3
Phishing continues to pose a significant cybersecurity threat. While blocklists currently serve as a primary defense, due to their reactive, passive nature, these delayed responses…
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…