Tag: Routing Attacks

Routing Attacks happen when an Autonomous System (AS) announces an incorrect path to a prefix, causing packets to traverse through and/or arrive at the attacker AS. We discuss the goals of the attacker from two perspectives: whom to affect and what to achieve. Routing Attacks occur in the wild and are getting increasingly prevalent and more sophisticated. The ability to divert targeted traffic via routing attacks is an emerging threat to Internet applications.
—CACM, “Securing Internet Applications from Routing Attacks“

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Articles / CyberSecurity

Securing Internet Applications from Routing Attacks

This article provides a new perspective by showing that routing attacks on Internet applications can have even more devastating consequences for users—including uncovering users (such as political dissidents) trying to communicate anonymously, impersonating websites even if the traffic uses HTTPS, and stealing cryptocurrency. This article argues that the security of Internet applications and the network infrastructure should be considered together, as vulnerabilities in one layer led to broken assumptions (and new vectors for attacks) in the other.

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