A comprehensive survey of recent internet measurement techniques for cyber security

MS Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Clusters in the expanse: Understanding and unbiasing IPv6 hitlists

O Gasser, Q Scheitle, P Foremski, Q Lone… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network measurements are an important tool in understanding the Internet. Due to the
expanse of the IPv6 address space, exhaustive scans as in IPv4 are not possible for IPv6. In …

Ipv6 hitlists at scale: Be careful what you wish for

E Rye, D Levin - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's network measurements rely heavily on Internet-wide scanning, employing tools like
ZMap that are capable of quickly iterating over the entire IPv4 address space. Unfortunately …

6scan: A high-efficiency dynamic internet-wide ipv6 scanner with regional encoding

B Hou, Z Cai, K Wu, T Yang… - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient Internet-wide scanning plays a vital role in network measurement and cybersecurity
analysis. While Internet-wide IPv4 scanning is a solved problem, Internet-wide scanning for …

6Hit: A reinforcement learning-based approach to target generation for Internet-wide IPv6 scanning

B Hou, Z Cai, K Wu, J Su… - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast Internet-wide network measurement plays an important role in cybersecurity analysis
and network asset detection. The vast address space of IPv6, however, makes it infeasible to …

Target acquired? Evaluating target generation algorithms for IPv6

L Steger, L Kuang, J Zirngibl, G Carle… - 2023 7th Network …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet measurements are a crucial foundation of IPv6-related research. Due to the
infeasibility of full address space scans for IPv6 however, those measurements rely on …

{AddrMiner}: A Comprehensive Global Active {IPv6} Address Discovery System

G Song, J Yang, L He, Z Wang, G Li, C Duan… - 2022 USENIX Annual …, 2022 - usenix.org
Fast Internet-wide scanning is essential for network situational awareness and asset
evaluation. However, the vast IPv6 address space makes brute-force scanning infeasible …

GWS-Geo: A graph neural network based model for street-level IPv6 geolocation

Z Ma, S Zhang, X Hu, N Li, Q Zhou, F Liu… - Journal of Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
IP geolocation is a technique for inferring geolocation of a device based on characteristics of
its IP addresses such as network measurements or queryable information. Traditional IPv4 …

Man-in-the-middle attacks without rogue AP: When WPAs meet ICMP redirects

X Feng, Q Li, K Sun, Y Yang… - 2023 IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern Wi-Fi networks are commonly protected by the security mechanisms, eg, WPA,
WPA2 or WPA3, and thus it is difficult for an attacker (a malicious supplicant) to hijack the …

Fast IPv6 network periphery discovery and security implications

X Li, B Liu, X Zheng, H Duan, Q Li… - 2021 51st Annual IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous measurement researches have been performed to discover the IPv4 network
security issues by leveraging the fast Internet-wide scanning techniques. However, IPv6 …