Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies

By Maria Apostolaki, Aviv Zohar, Laurent Vanbever. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2016

484 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/07db4d7b141081644b9cbb3e6d1f34c1bc80db24

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Citations in the corpus

• Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks (2018, background): “Recent work [2] presented the level of vulnerability, showing that 13 ASes cover the same fraction”
• An Overview on Smart Contracts: Challenges, Advances and Platforms (2019, unknown): “For example, it is reported in [88] that attackers exploited Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing scheme to intercept messages in blockchains.”
• A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin (2017, background): “Indeed, numerous attacks have been described targeting different aspects of the system, including double spending [2], netsplit [3], transaction malleability [4], networking attacks [5], or attacks targeting mining [6] [7] [8] and mining pools [9].”
• Blockchain for Internet of Things: A Survey (2019, background): “In particular, it is shown in [108] that the malicious users can exploit border gateway protocol (BGP) routing scheme to hijack blockchain messages, thereby resulting in the higher delay of block broadcasting.”
• A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems (2017, background): “[57] comprehensively analyze the impact of routing attacks, including both nodelevel and network-level attacks, on Bitcoin, and show that the number of the successfully to-be-hijacked Internet prefixes depends on the distribution of mining power.”
• Assessing Blockchain Consensus and Security Mechanisms against the 51% Attack (2019, background): “Border gateway protocol (BGP) hijacking, also known as a routing attack, is a technique where the internet service provider (ISP) makes false announcements over the routing system to divert traffic [23].”