QUICsand: Quantifying QUIC Reconnaissance Scans and DoS Flooding Events

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Abstract

In this paper, we present first measurements of Internet background radiation originating from the emerging transport protocol QUIC. Our analysis is based on the UCSD network telescope, correlated with active measurements. We find that research projects dominate the QUIC scanning ecosystem but also discover traffic from non-benign sources. We argue that although QUIC has been carefully designed to restrict reflective amplification attacks, the QUIC handshake is prone to resource exhaustion attacks, similar to TCP SYN floods. We confirm this conjecture by showing how this attack vector is already exploited in multi-vector attacks: On average, the Internet is exposed to four QUIC floods per hour and half of these attacks occur concurrently with other common attack types such as TCP/ICMP floods.

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIMC '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages283-291
Number of pages9
ISBN (electronic)978-1-4503-9129-0
Publication statusPublished - 2 Nov 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

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SeriesIMC: Internet Measurement Conference

Conference

Title21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2021
Duration2 - 4 November 2021
CityVirtual, Online
CountryUnited States of America

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ORCID /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/142241901

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