Unravelling ariadne's thread: Exploring the threats of decentralised dns

C Patsakis, F Casino, N Lykousas, V Katos - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation
with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This situation …

Unearthing malicious campaigns and actors from the blockchain DNS ecosystem

F Casino, N Lykousas, V Katos, C Patsakis - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain DNS has emerged as an alternative solution to traditional DNS to address many
of its inherent drawbacks. In this regard, a blockchain DNS approach is decentralised …

Ethereum name service: the good, the bad, and the ugly

P Xia, H Wang, Z Yu, X Liu, X Luo, G Xu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05185, 2021 - arxiv.org
DNS has always been criticized for its inherent design flaws, making the system vulnerable
to kinds of attacks. Besides, DNS domain names are not fully controlled by the users, which …

A comparative study of blockchain-based dns design

Y Liu, Y Zhang, S Zhu, C Chi - Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the rapid development of Internet, security and privacy of the Domain Name System
(DNS) are becoming increasingly important. Thanks to its decentralized structure and …

Challenges in decentralized name management: the case of ENS

P Xia, H Wang, Z Yu, X Liu, X Luo, G Xu… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
DNS has often been criticized for inherent design flaws, which make the system vulnerable
to attack. Further, domain names are not fully controlled by users, meaning that they can …

Privacy-preserving passive dns

P Papadopoulos, N Pitropakis, WJ Buchanan, O Lo… - Computers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Domain Name System (DNS) was created to resolve the IP addresses of web servers to
easily remembered names. When it was initially created, security was not a major concern; …

Dnsonchain: Delegating privacy-preserved dns resolution to blockchain

L Jin, S Hao, Y Huang, H Wang… - 2021 IEEE 29th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domain Name System (DNS) is known to present privacy concerns. To this end,
decentralized blockchains have been used to host DNS records, so that users can …

{DomainScouter}: Understanding the Risks of Deceptive {IDNs}

D Chiba, AA Hasegawa, T Koide, Y Sawabe… - … on Research in Attacks …, 2019 - usenix.org
Cyber attackers create domain names that are visually similar to those of legitimate/popular
brands by abusing valid internationalized domain names (IDNs). In this work, we …

Zone poisoning: The how and where of non-secure DNS dynamic updates

M Korczyński, M Król, M Van Eeten - Proceedings of the 2016 Internet …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper illuminates the problem of non-secure DNS dynamic updates, which allow a
miscreant to manipulate DNS entries in the zone files of authoritative name servers. We refer …

Never say never: Authoritative TLD nameserver-powered DNS amplification

M Anagnostopoulos, G Kambourakis… - NOMS 2018-2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DNS amplification attack is a significant and persistent threat to the Internet. Authoritative
name servers (ANSes) of popular domains, especially the DNSSEC-enabled ones, give …