NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Your Bitcoins or Your Site: An Analysis of the DDoS for Bitcoins (DD4BC) DDoS Extortion Campaign.
Meeting:	NANOG65
Date / Time:	2015-10-05 11:15am - 12:00pm
Room:	Le Grand Salon & Marquette
Presenters:	Speakers: Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks Roland Dobbins has 30 years of operational experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, operating, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and defending many of the highest-visibility networks in the world. He is a recognized industry leader in the fields of operational security (opsec) and network telemetry, and has an extensive background in security product/feature innovation, devising operational security requirements for network infrastructure devices, and protocol design. His focus is on extending the availability, scalability, and security of the network infrastructure and the applications/services it enables, with an emphasis on flexible and resilient global service delivery capabilities.
Abstract:	In this presentation, we will discuss details of the ongoing DDoS for Bitcoins (DD4BC) DDoS extortion campaign, which has targeted multiple organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The attack methodologies, evolution of the attack campaign, and discussion of the nature of the attacker(s) will be covered, along with a discussion of successful DDoS mitigation techniques which have proven effective against these attacks.
Files:	An Analysis of the DDoS for Bitcoins DDoS Extortion Campaign Your Bitcoins or Your Site(PDF)
Sponsors:	None.

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• Conference Opening
  Speakers:
  Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
  Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;

• Conference Opening
  Speakers:
  Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
  Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;

• Conference Opening
  Speakers:
  Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
  Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;

• Conference Opening
  Speakers:
  Tony Tauber, Comcast; Christian S. TacitTorIX; .
  Philippe Couture, Videotron; Clinton Work, TELUS;

• NANOG 65 Keynote Address
  Speakers:
  Jack Waters, Level3 Communications;

• Your Bitcoins or Your Site: An Analysis of the DDoS for Bitcoins (DD4BC) DDoS Extortion Campaign.
  Speakers:
  Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks;

• The many uses of NetFlow and flow-like data
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  Avi Freedman, Kentik;

• NANOG Board Candidates
  Moderators:
  William CharnockPacketFabric; .
  

• DNS Track
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  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

• Data Center Track
  Moderators:
  Gabe Cole, RTE Group, Inc.;

• DNS Track
  Speakers:
  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

• DNS Track
  Speakers:
  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

• DNS Track
  Speakers:
  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

• DNS Track
  Speakers:
  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

• DNS Track
  Speakers:
  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

• DNS Track
  Speakers:
  Geoff HustonAPNIC; .
  Duane Wessels, VeriSign; Keith MithcellDNS-OARC; .
  Brian SomersOpenDNS ; .
  Ray BellisInternet Systems Consortium; .
  Eddie Winstead.
  Tomas HlavacekCZ.NIC; .
  

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• NetDevOps - Ansible 101 to network nirvana
  Speakers:
  Bronwyn Lewis, Packet Clearing House; Matt Peterson, Cumulus Networks;

• Demystifying Pros & Cons of large Scale BGP RR deployments
  Speakers:
  rohit bothra, Brocade Communications;

• DDoS Tutorial
  Speakers:
  Krassimir Tzvetanov, A10 Networks, Inc.;

• Security Track
  Speakers:
  Krassimir Tzvetanov, A10 Networks, Inc.;

• Wi-Fi: Fundamentals, Design and Troubleshooting
  Speakers:
  Troy Martin, Aerohive Networks;

• 10 Weird (and Possibly Useful) Things You Didn't Know about International Networks
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• Monitor BGP using open source OpenBMP and Apache Kafka
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• Building a smallish DC...for the rest of us
  Speakers:
  Karl Brumund, Dyn;

• Running MPLS efficiently in ring networks
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  Ravi Singh, Juniper Networks;

• BGPuma -- Border Gateway Protocol Update Metric Analysis
  Speakers:
  Leigh Metcalf, CERT;

• Whack-a-Mole Routing: The effects of ISP Traffic Engineering on Non-ISP Networks
  Speakers:
  Rick Casarez, Salesforce;

• Distributed Route Aggregation on the Global Network (DRAGON)
  Speakers:
  João Luís Sobrinho, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Lisbon;

• Cloudy with a chance of Breach: Forecasting Cyber Security Incidents
  Speakers:
  Manish Karir, QuadMetrics;

• Optimal routing vs. Route Reflector VNF - reconcile the fire with water
  Speakers:
  Rafal Szarecki, Juniper Networks;

• The future of North American Regional BCOP
  Speakers:
  Aaron Hughes6connect; .
  Chris Grundemann.
  

• The future of North American Regional BCOP
  Speakers:
  Aaron Hughes6connect; .
  Chris Grundemann.
  

• Lightning Talks
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  NANOG Lightning TalksNANOG Community; .
  

• Peering Track
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  Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
  David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
  Jon Nistor, TorIX;

• Strategies of packet buffering inside Routers
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  Rafal Szarecki, Juniper Networks;

• Peering Track
  Moderators:
  Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
  David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
  Jon Nistor, TorIX;

• Peering Track
  Moderators:
  Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
  David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
  Jon Nistor, TorIX;

• Peering Track
  Moderators:
  Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
  David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
  Jon Nistor, TorIX;

• Peering Track
  Moderators:
  Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
  David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
  Jon Nistor, TorIX;

• Peering Track
  Moderators:
  Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.; Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group; Panelists:
  David E. Young, Verizon; Hank Hultquist, AT&T; Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications; Speakers:
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• Proactive Network Configuration Validation with Batfish
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  ratul mahajanmicrosoft research; .
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• Proactive Network Configuration Validation with Batfish
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  Todd MillsteinUniversity of California, Los Angeles; .
  ratul mahajanmicrosoft research; .
  Ari Fogel, UCLA; Meg Walraed-SullivanSpace Exploration Technologies; .
  

• Proactive Network Configuration Validation with Batfish
  Speakers:
  Todd MillsteinUniversity of California, Los Angeles; .
  ratul mahajanmicrosoft research; .
  Ari Fogel, UCLA; Meg Walraed-SullivanSpace Exploration Technologies; .
  

• Proactive Network Configuration Validation with Batfish
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• Deploying IPv6 at Scale as an ISP
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• Closing Remarks
  Speakers:
  Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director;