Tag: network
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VB2014 paper: Sweeping the IP space: the hunt for evil on the Internet
Dhia Mahjoub explains how the topology of the AS graph can be used to uncover hotspots of maliciousness. Over the next few months, we will be sharing VB2014 conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘Sweeping the IP space: the hunt for evil on the Internet’ by OpenDNS…
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$83k in bitcoins ‘stolen’ through BGP hijack
Short-lived network changes used to make miners connect to rogue pool. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks have discovered an operation that used BGP hijacking to force bitcoin miners to connect to mining pools under the attackers’ control, thus gaining them a lot of extra mining power and, ultimately, about $83,000 in bitcoins. New bitcoins are constantly…