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We present an effective Sybil attack against social location based services. Our attack is based on creating a large number of reputed "bot drivers", and controlling their reported locations using fake GPS reports. We show how this attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Meital Ben Sinai , Nimrod Partush , Shir Yadid , Eran Yahav

Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) enables users with personal mobile devices (PMDs) to gain information on their surroundings. Users collect and contribute data on different phenomena using their PMD sensors, and the MCS system processes this data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Alexander Söderhäll , Zahra Alimadadi , Panos Papadimitratos

In this paper, we propose a Sybil attack detection scheme using proofs of work and location. The idea is that each road side unit (RSU) issues a signed time-stamped tag as a proof for the vehicle's anonymous location. Proofs sent from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Mohamed Baza , Mahmoud Nabil , Niclas Bewermeier , Kemal Fidan , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mohamed Abdallah

Ad hoc networks is vulnerable to numerous number of attacks due to its infrastructure-less nature, one of these attacks is the Sybil attack. Sybil attack is a severe attack on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) in which the intruder…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Salam Hamdan , Amjad Hudaib , Arafat Awajan

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely used in vehicular networks to support Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications. Wireless sensors in vehicular networks support sensing and monitoring of various environmental factors and vehicle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jae-Dong Kim , Dabin Kim , Minseok Ko , Jong-Moon Chung

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

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

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

Prevalent solutions for Connected and Autonomous vehicle (CAV) mapping include high definition map (HD map) or real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Both methods only rely on vehicle itself (onboard sensors or embedded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Hanlin Chen , Renyuan Luo , Yiheng Feng

We address the security of a network of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) cooperating to navigate through a conflict area. Adversarial attacks such as Sybil attacks can cause safety violations resulting in collisions and traffic jams.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-06 H M Sabbir Ahmad , Ehsan Sabouni , Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Wenchao Li

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

Vehicular communications play a substantial role in providing safety transportation by means of safety message exchange. Researchers have proposed several solutions for securing safety messages. Protocols based on a fixed key infrastructure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Mina Rahbari , Mohammad Ali Jabreil Jamali

The number of emergencies have increased over the years with the growth in urbanization. This pattern has overwhelmed the emergency services with limited resources and demands the optimization of response processes. It is partly due to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasas Senarath , Saideep Nannapaneni , Hemant Purohit , Abhishek Dubey

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

Any decentralised distributed network is particularly vulnerable to the Sybil attack wherein a malicious node masquerades as several different nodes, called Sybil nodes, simultaneously in an attempt to disrupt the proper functioning of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Nitish Balachandran , Sugata Sanyal

We characterize the advantage of using a robot's neighborhood to find and eliminate adversarial robots in the presence of a Sybil attack. We show that by leveraging the opinions of its neighbors on the trustworthiness of transmitted data,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Matthew Cavorsi , Stephanie Gil

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

We consider traffic-update mobile applications that let users learn traffic conditions based on reports from other users. These applications are becoming increasingly popular (e.g., Waze reported 30 million users in 2013) since they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Joshua Brown , Olga Ohrimenko , Roberto Tamassia

Autonomous driving perceives surroundings with line-of-sight sensors that are compromised under environmental uncertainties. To achieve real time global information in high definition map, we investigate to share perception information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

Location data can be extremely useful to study commuting patterns and disruptions, as well as to predict real-time traffic volumes. At the same time, however, the fine-grained collection of user locations raises serious privacy concerns, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross
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