Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks

Ghaleb, Baraq; Al‐Dubai, Ahmed; Ekonomou, Elias; Qasem, Mamoun; Romdhani, Imed; Mackenzie, Lewis

doi:10.1109/lcomm.2018.2878151

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“…SPL -V7 (Mishandled exception) [79]: When a contract is called by another contract and an exception or error is raised in the Calle contract. But if the same might not be reported to the Calle contract, then it might lead to threats.…”

Section: Ethereum Smart Contract Vulnerabilities and Preventive Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contract

et al. 2022

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Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that enables users to communicate in a trust-less manner. It revolutionizes the modes of business between organizations without the need for a trusted third party. It is a distributed ledger technology based on a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network. It enables users to store data globally on thousands of computers in an immutable format and empowers users to deploy small pieces of programs known as smart contracts. The blockchain-based smart contract enables auto enforcement of the agreed terms between two untrusted parties. There are several security vulnerabilities in Ethereum blockchain-based smart contracts, due to which sometimes it does not behave as intended. Because a smart contract can hold millions of dollars as cryptocurrency, so these security vulnerabilities can lead to disastrous losses. In this paper, a systematic review of the security vulnerabilities in the Ethereum blockchain is presented. The main objective is to discuss Ethereum smart contract security vulnerabilities, detection tools, real life attacks and preventive mechanisms. Comparisons are drawn among the Ethereum smart contract analysis tools by considering various features. From the extensive depth review, various issues associated with the Ethereum blockchain-based smart contract are highlighted. Finally, various future directions are also discussed in the field of the Ethereum blockchain-based smart contract that can help the researchers to set the directions for future research in this domain.

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Section: Ethereum Smart Contract Vulnerabilities and Preventive Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contract

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“…Smart contracts enable secure transactions between different nodes without the interference of a third party. However, due to bad programming practices, the smart contracts may become vulnerable to different attacks like DAO attack [53], reentrancy attack [54], transaction ordering attack [55], etc. We analysed our smart contract using the Oyente analysis tool.…”

Section: B Smart Contract Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Securing Genetic Algorithm Enabled SDN Routing for Blockchain Based Internet of Things

Abbas¹,

Javaid

Almogren

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging domain in which different devices communicate with each other through minimum human intervention. IoT devices are usually operated in hostile and unattended environments. Moreover, routing in current IoT architecture becomes inefficient due to malicious and unauthenticated nodes' existence, minimum network lifetime, insecure routing, etc. This paper proposes a lightweight blockchain based authentication mechanism where ordinary sensors' credentials are stored. As IoT nodes have a short lifespan due to energy depletion, few credentials are stored in the blockchain to achieve lightweight authentication. Moreover, the route calculation is performed by a genetic algorithm enabled software defined network controller, which is also used for on-demand routing to optimize the energy consumption of the nodes in the IoT network. Furthermore, a route correctness mechanism is proposed to check the existence of malicious nodes in the calculated route. Moreover, a detection mechanism is proposed to restrict the malicious nodes' activities, while a malicious node's list is maintained in the blockchain, which is used in the route correctness mechanism. The proposed model is evaluated by performing intensive simulations. The effectiveness of the proposed model is depicted in terms of gas consumption, which shows the optimized utilization of resources. The residual energy of the network shows optimized route calculation, while the malicious node detection method shows the number of packets dropped.

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“…A dynamic threshold–based defense mechanism is proposed by Mayzaud et al to mitigate DODAG inconsistency attacks. Ghaleb et al studied the impact of DAO falsification attack and proposed a defense mechanism named SecRPL to mitigate DAO falsification attack. Ariehrour et al proposed enhancement of RPL protocol, which is capable to detect rank and sybil attacks efficiently.…”

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Mitigation of DIS flooding attacks in RPL‐based 6LoWPAN networks

Verma

Ranga

2019

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low‐Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is the de facto routing protocol for IPv6‐based Low‐Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). In RPL protocol, DODAG Information Solicitation (DIS) messages are sent by the node to join the network. A malicious node can exploit this mechanism to send illegitimate DIS messages to the neighbor nodes to perform a DIS flooding attack. In this research paper, it is observed that the DIS flooding attack increases the control packet overhead of the network, which significantly degrades the network's performance. This further increases the power consumption of the nodes in the network. To address this problem, a mitigation scheme named Secure‐RPL is proposed. The proposed scheme mitigates significantly the effects of DIS flooding attack on the network's performance. The effectiveness of the proposed Secure‐RPL scheme is compared with standard RPL protocol. The experimental results show that Secure‐RPL detects and mitigates DIS flooding attack quickly and efficiently in both static and dynamic network scenarios, without adding any significant overhead to the nodes.

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Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks

Cited by 70 publications

References 14 publications

Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contract

Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contract

Securing Genetic Algorithm Enabled SDN Routing for Blockchain Based Internet of Things

Mitigation of DIS flooding attacks in RPL‐based 6LoWPAN networks

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