Exploring the Attack Surface of Blockchain: A Comprehensive Survey
- 주제(키워드) Blockchain , Bitcoin , Delays , Smart contracts , Computer crime , Blockchain , security , attack surface , applications , peer-to-peer systems
- 주제(기타) Computer Science, Information Systems
- 주제(기타) Telecommunications
- 설명문(일반) [Saad, Muhammad; Spaulding, Jeffrey; Mohaisen, David] Univ Cent Florida, Dept Comp Sci, Orlando, FL 32816 USA; [Njilla, Laurent] US Air Force, Dept Comp Sci, Res Lab, Rome, NY 13441 USA; [Kamhoua, Charles] US Army, Dept Comp Sci, Res Lab, Adelphi, MD 20783 USA; [Shetty, Sachin] Old Dominion Univ, Dept Modeling & Simulat, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA; [Nyang, DaeHun] Ewha Womans Univ, Seoul 03760, South Korea
- 관리정보기술 faculty
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- 발행년도 2020
- 세부유형 Article
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000174634
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2020.2975999
초록/요약
In this paper, we systematically explore the attack surface of the Blockchain technology, with an emphasis on public Blockchains. Towards this goal, we attribute attack viability in the attack surface to 1) the Blockchain cryptographic constructs, 2) the distributed architecture of the systems using Blockchain, and 3) the Blockchain application context. To each of those contributing factors, we outline several attacks, including selfish mining, the 51 attack, DNS attacks, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, consensus delay (due to selfish behavior or distributed denial-of-service attacks), Blockchain forks, orphaned and stale blocks, block ingestion, wallet thefts, smart contract attacks, and privacy attacks. We also explore the causal relationships between these attacks to demonstrate how various attack vectors are connected to one another. A secondary contribution of this work is outlining effective defense measures taken by the Blockchain technology or proposed by researchers to mitigate the effects of these attacks and patch associated vulnerabilities.
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