| Publisher | University of Massachusetts | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 149.3KB PDF | Date added | 10 Nov 2003 |
| Topics | Anti-Hacking, Anti-Virus | ||
| Downloads | 39 | ||
Most well-known Internet worms, such as Code Red, Slammer, and Blaster, infected vulnerable computers by scanning the entire Internet IPv4 space. This paper presents a new scan-based worm called "Routing worm", which can use information provided by BGP routing tables to reduce its scanning space without ignoring any potential vulnerable computer. A routing worm can propagate twice to more than three times faster than a traditional worm. In addition, the geographic information of allocated IP addresses, especially BGP routing prefixes, enables a routing worm to conduct fine-grained selective attacks: hackers or terrorists can selectively impose heavy damage to vulnerable computers in a specific country, an Internet Service Provider, or an Autonomous System, without much collateral damage done to others.
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