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This paper reviews the Sybil attack in social networks, which has the potential to compromise the whole distributed network. In the Sybil attack, the malicious user claims multiple identities to compromise the network. Sybil attacks can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Rupesh Gunturu

Many distributed systems are subject to the Sybil attack, where an adversary subverts system operation by emulating behavior of multiple distinct nodes. Most recent work to address this problem leverages social networks to establish trust…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Frank Li , Prateek Mittal , Matthew Caesar , Nikita Borisov

This paper describes a simulation study on security attacks over Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). We specifically focus on attacks at the underlying peer-to-peer layer of these systems, that is in charge of disseminating messages…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Luca Serena , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti

Sybil attacks are a fundamental threat to the security of distributed systems. Recently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging social networks to mitigate Sybil attacks. However, the existing approaches suffer from one or more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Mario Frank , Prateek Mittal

Sybil attacks are becoming increasingly widespread and pose a significant threat to online social systems; a single adversary can inject multiple colluding identities in the system to compromise security and privacy. Recent works have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Peng Gao , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Kurt Thomas , Prateek Mittal

Wireless networks are vulnerable to Sybil attacks, in which a malicious node poses as many identities in order to gain disproportionate influence. Many defenses based on spatial variability of wireless channels exist, but depend either on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Yue Liu , David R. Bild , Robert P. Dick , Z. Morley Mao , Dan S. Wallach

In federated learning, machine learning and deep learning models are trained globally on distributed devices. The state-of-the-art privacy-preserving technique in the context of federated learning is user-level differential privacy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yupeng Jiang , Yong Li , Yipeng Zhou , Xi Zheng

The Sybil attack plagues all peer-to-peer systems, and modern open distributed ledgers employ a number of tactics to prevent it from proof of work, or other resources such as space, stake or memory, to traditional admission control in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Alberto Sonnino , George Danezis

Sybil attacks are becoming increasingly widespread, and pose a significant threat to online social systems; a single adversary can inject multiple colluding identities in the system to compromise security and privacy. Recent works have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Peng Gao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Kurt Thomas , Prateek Mittal

Restaking protocols expand validator responsibilities beyond consensus, but their security depends on resistance to Sybil attacks. We introduce a formal framework for Sybil-proofness in restaking networks, distinguishing between two types…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Tarun Chitra , Paolo Penna , Manvir Schneider

In this paper we have a close look at the Sybil attack and advances in defending against it, with particular emphasis on the recent work. We identify three major veins of literature work to defend against the attack: using trusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Aziz Mohaisen , Joongheon Kim

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations called nodes, which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interest, and exchange of finance, relationships…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Wajeb Gharibi , Maha Shaabi

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks by malicious adversaries. Existing methods often involve high costs to achieve effective attacks. To address this challenge, we propose a sybil-based virtual data poisoning attack, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Changxun Zhu , Qilong Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Shibei Xue

Existing centralised market places such as Ebay enable companies to gather large amounts of personal data that can be used to manipulate users. Furthermore, users can frequently perform fraud without severe consequence. Reputation systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Naqib Zarin , Dirk van Bokkem , Justin Segond , Stefanie Roos

Internet of things (IoT) connects all items to the Internet through information-sensing devices to exchange information for intelligent identification and management. Sybil attack is a famous and crippling attack in IoT. Most of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Manli Yuan , Liwei Lin , Zhengyu Wu , Xiucai Ye

Distributed denial of service attacks are often considered a security problem. While this may be the way to view the problem with today's Internet, new network architectures attempting to address the issue should view it as a scalability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-26 Yoo Chung

Networks are beneficial to those being connected but can also be used as carriers of contagious hostile attacks. These attacks are often facilitated by exploiting corrupt network users. To protect against the attacks, users can resort to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Tomasz Janus , Mateusz Skomra , Marcin Dziubiński

This paper presents a review of peer-to-peer network security. Popular for sharing of multimedia files, these networks carry risks and vulnerabilities relating to data integrity, spyware, adware, and unwanted files. Further attacks include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Logan Washbourne

As popular tools for spreading spam and malware, Sybils (or fake accounts) pose a serious threat to online communities such as Online Social Networks (OSNs). Today, sophisticated attackers are creating realistic Sybils that effectively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Gang Wang , Manish Mohanlal , Christo Wilson , Xiao Wang , Miriam Metzger , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Being a volunteer-run, distributed anonymity network, Tor is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Little is known about real-world Sybils in the Tor network, and we lack practical tools and methods to expose Sybil attacks. In this work, we develop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Philipp Winter , Roya Ensafi , Karsten Loesing , Nick Feamster
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