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BGP prefix hijacking is a critical threat to the resilience and security of communications in the Internet. While several mechanisms have been proposed to prevent, detect or mitigate hijacking events, it has not been studied how to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Pavlos Sermpezis , Vasileios Kotronis , Konstantinos Arakadakis , Athena Vakali

BGP prefix hijacking is a critical threat to Internet organizations and users. Despite the availability of several defense approaches (ranging from RPKI to popular third-party services), none of them solves the problem adequately in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Pavlos Sermpezis , Vasileios Kotronis , Petros Gigis , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos , Danilo Cicalese , Alistair King , Alberto Dainotti

The detection of BGP prefix hijacking attacks has been the focus of research for more than a decade. However, state-of-the-art techniques fall short of detecting more elaborate types of attack. To study such attacks, we devise a novel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Johann Schlamp , Ralph Holz , Quentin Jacquemart , Georg Carle , Ernst W. Biersack

Harmful Internet hijacking incidents put in evidence how fragile the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is, which is used to exchange routing information between Autonomous Systems (ASes). As proved by recent research contributions, even S-BGP,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Marco Chiesa , Giuseppe Di Battista , Thomas Erlebach , Maurizio Patrignani

IP prefix hijacks allow adversaries to redirect and intercept traffic, posing a threat to the stability and security of the Internet. To prevent prefix hijacks, networks should deploy RPKI and filter bogus BGP announcements with invalid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Tomas Hlavacek , Haya Shulman , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

The lack of security of the Internet routing protocol (BGP) has allowed attackers to divert Internet traffic and consequently perpetrate service disruptions, monetary frauds, and even citizen surveillance for decades. State-of-the-art…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tobias Bühler , Alexandros Milolidakis , Romain Jacob , Marco Chiesa , Stefano Vissicchio , Laurent Vanbever

As the deployment of comprehensive Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) security measures is still in progress, BGP monitoring continues to play a critical role in protecting the Internet from routing attacks. Fundamentally, monitoring involves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Henry Birge-Lee , Maria Apostolaki , Jennifer Rexford

BGP is the default inter-domain routing protocol in today's Internet, but has serious security vulnerabilities\cite{murphy2005bgp}. One of them is (sub)prefix hijacking. IETF standardizes RPKI to validate the AS origin but RPKI has a lot of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wenjie Xu , Deliang Chang , Xing Li

The vulnerability of the Internet has been demonstrated by prominent IP prefix hijacking events. Major outages such as the China Telecom incident in 2010 stimulate speculations about malicious intentions behind such anomalies. Surprisingly,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Johann Schlamp , Josef Gustafsson , Matthias Wählisch , Thomas C. Schmidt , Georg Carle

Prefix hijacking is a common phenomenon in the Internet that often causes routing problems and economic losses. In this demo, we propose ARTEMIS, a tool that enables network administrators to detect and mitigate prefix hijacking incidents,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Gavriil Chaviaras , Petros Gigis , Pavlos Sermpezis , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains a fragile pillar of Internet routing. BGP hijacks still occurr daily. While full deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) is ongoing, attackers have already adapted, launching post-ROV attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alessandro Giaconia , Muoi Tran , Laurent Vanbever , Stefano Vissicchio

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is globally used by Autonomous Systems (ASes) to establish route paths for IP prefixes in the Internet. Due to the lack of authentication in BGP, an AS can hijack IP prefixes owned by other ASes (i.e.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Pavlos Sermpezis , Gavriil Chaviaras , Petros Gigis , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

BGP is the de facto protocol used for inter-autonomous system routing in the Internet. Generally speaking, BGP has been proven to be secure, efficient, scalable, and robust. However, with the rapid evolving of the Internet in the past few…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Amit Narayanan

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) serves as the primary routing protocol for the Internet, enabling Autonomous Systems (individual network operators) to exchange network reachability information. Alongside significant on-going research and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Joel Obstfeld , Xiaoyu Chen , Olivier Frebourg , Pavan Sudheendra

Poor security of Internet routing enables adversaries to divert user data through unintended infrastructures (hijack). Of particular concern -- and the focus of this paper -- are cases where attackers reroute domestic traffic through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Satadal Sengupta , Hyojoon Kim , Daniel Jubas , Maria Apostolaki , Jennifer Rexford

Web content delivery is one of the most important services on the Internet. Access to websites is typically secured via TLS. However, this security model does not account for prefix hijacking on the network layer, which may lead to traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Matthias Wählisch , Robert Schmidt , Thomas C. Schmidt , Olaf Maennel , Steve Uhlig , Gareth Tyson

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is the main mechanism to protect inter-domain routing with BGP from prefix hijacks. It has already been widely deployed by large providers and the adoption rate is getting to a critical point.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Donika Mirdita , Haya Schulmann , Michael Waidner

Tor is vulnerable to network-level adversaries who can observe both ends of the communication to deanonymize users. Recent work has shown that Tor is susceptible to the previously unknown active BGP routing attacks, called RAPTOR attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Yixin Sun , Anne Edmundson , Nick Feamster , Mung Chiang , Prateek Mittal

BGP is the protocol that keeps Internet connected. Operators use it by announcing Address Prefixes (APs), namely IP address blocks, that they own or that they agree to serve as transit for. BGP enables ISPs to devise complex policies to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Liron David , Yuval Shavitt

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an important component in today's IP network infrastructure. As the main routing protocol of the Internet, clear understanding of its dynamics is crucial for configuring, diagnosing and debugging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Alex A. Stewart , Marta F. Antoszkiewicz
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