Eclipse Attacks on Overlay Networks: Threats and Defenses

By Atul Singh, Tsuen-Wan Ngan, Peter Druschel, D. Wallach. Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2006. 25TH IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications

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Low-resource routing attacks against tor (2007, background): “Anonymous auditing [25], where nodes anonymously attempt to verify other nodes’ connectivity in order to detect collusion, has been proposed as a defense against routing attacks in structured overlays.”
Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data (2009, background): “In the Eclipse attack, several adversarial nodes can redirect most of the traffic issued by honest nodes toward themselves by poisoning their routing tables with malicious node contact information [60].”
A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures (2007, background): “Likewise, strategies that di srupt the ability of the network to maintain indices may be fruitful, as suggested by the P2P index poisoning research in [51].”
Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm (2008, background): “A special form of the sybil attack is the eclipse attack [26] that aims to separate a part of the P2P network from the rest.”
A Comprehensive Survey on Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures in Machine Learning (2022, background): “When malicious clients are more than one, the poisoning attacks can be formalized as sybil attacks [115].”
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network (2015, methodology): “Finally, we present countermeasures, inspired by botnet architectures, that are designed to raise the bar for eclipse attacks while preserving the openness and decentralization of bitcoin’s current network architecture.”
A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems (2017, background): “e 5 N-conrmation double spend The eclipse attack allows an attacker to monopolize all of the victim’s incoming and outgoing connections, which isolates the victim from the other peers in the network [61]. Then, the attacker can lter the victim’s view of the blockchain, or let the victim cost unneces”