The Anonymity of the Dark Web: A Survey #06

This is my personal note about the paper introduction. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359421382_The_Anonymity_of_the_Dark_Web_A_Survey

This note is writing about overview of section 4 (ATTACKS ON THE DARK WEB) on this paper. It has become a bit of a hassle, and this series is long, so I have extracted just the topics for this section.

Attacks on the dark web

Attacks on Tor

Client Active Attacks

1. Traffic Attack
2. Cellflood Attack

Client Passive Attacks

1. Website Fingerprinting Attack
2. Unpopular Port Attacks
3. Low Resource Routing Attacks
4. Fingerprinting Attacks

Server Active Attacks

1. Eclipse Attacks

Server Passive Attacks

1. Cell Counter based Attack

Network Active Attacks

1. DoS Attacks
2. Watermarking based Traffic Attack
3. Sybil Attack
4. Sniper Attack

Network Passive Attacks

1. Traffic Attacks
2. Correlation Attacks
3. Low-cost Traffic Analysis of Tor

Generic Active Attacks

1. Botnets

Generic Passive Attacks

1. Raptor Attacks

Counterattacks

1. Counter Raptor
2. Centralized Zeus Botnet (ZBOT)
3. Counter Sybil
4. Counter Eclipse Attack

Countermeasures

1. Network Layer
2. Protocol Layer
3. Application Layer

Attacks on I2P

1. Partitioning Attacks
2. Intersection Attacks
3. DoS Attacks
4. Peer Identification Attack
5. Router Discovery
   1. Counterattacks Counter Sybil

Attacks on Freenet

1. Routing table insertion (RTI) Attack
2. Traceback Attack on Freenet
   1. Counterattacks counter RTI
   2. Counter traceback