Code-Red: a case study on the spread and victims of an internet worm
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
IEEE Security and Privacy
Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms (Radia Perlman Computer Networking and Security)
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Exploiting P2P systems for DDoS attacks
InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
The bittorrent p2p file-sharing system: measurements and analysis
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Misusing unstructured p2p systems to perform dos attacks: the network that never forgets
ACNS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
Exploiting KAD: possible uses and misuses
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Antisocial Networks: Turning a Social Network into a Botnet
ISC '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Security
Monitoring the Bittorrent Monitors: A Bird's Eye View
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Measurement and mitigation of BitTorrent leecher attacks
Computer Communications
The WOMBAT Attack Attribution Method: Some Results
ICISS '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security
Request diversion: a novel mechanism to counter P2P based DDoS attacks
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
Preventing DDoS attacks on internet servers exploiting P2P systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
ICDCN'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Distributed computing and networking
eDonkey & eMule's Kad: Measurements & Attacks
Fundamenta Informaticae
| Hi-index | 0.01 |
BitTorrent is currently one of the most popular peer-to-peer systems. BitTorrent clients are widely spread all over the world and account for a large fraction of today's Internet traffic. In this paper, we show that BitTorrent can be exploited by misdirecting clients to send their traffic toward any host on the Internet. The volume of a BitTorrent swarm can thus be converted into firepower for launching a distributed denial-of-service attack that can exhaust the victim's resources, including access bandwidth and connection resources. We identify novel exploits of the BitTorrent system and conduct real-life experiments that demonstrate the feasibility and severity of such attacks. We characterize the volume, duration and spread of attack traffic observed in our experiments. Finally, we discuss possible fixes and the limits of both attack and defense approaches.