A Survey of Privacy Infrastructures and Their Vulnerabilities

TL;DR

This survey reviews various privacy infrastructures like Tor and botnets, highlighting their vulnerabilities and the risks they pose for illegal activities and user anonymity.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of privacy infrastructures and identifies key vulnerabilities exploited by attackers.

Findings

Privacy infrastructures are increasingly exploited for illegal activities.

Vulnerabilities in these systems can lead to user identification.

The paper highlights the need for improved security measures.

Abstract

Over the last two decades, the scale and complexity of Anonymous networks and its associated technologies grows exponentially as privacy has become a major concern of individuals. Also, some cyber attackers make use of privacy infrastructures including botnets and Tor to do illegal activities like drug, contraband or DDoS attack. However, anonymous networks are not perfect, there are some methods could exploit the vulnerabilities and track user information. In this paper, we analyze few of privacy infrastructures and their vulnerabilities.