Selective Jamming of LoRaWAN using Commodity Hardware

Aras, Emekcan; Small, Nicolas; Ramachandran, Gowri Sankar; Delbruel, Stéphane; Joosen, Wouter; Hughes, Danny

doi:10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273515

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“…While many attacks and protocol overviews have already been discussed and analysed so far, due to insufficient varied research and results in this area, Denial of Service attacks used in conjunction with Eavesdropping attacks will be the focus in this paper from this point onward. The experiments will aim to build upon some of the work done by Aras [30], but with less emphasis on the Spreading Factor, and more on determining the ideal conditions for an attack, with focus on a more real world scenario, like the normal operational use of multiple channels. An attempt to implement a solution to such attacks will also be carried out.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The main documented method of performing DoS attacks in LoRaWAN is via use of signal jamming and replay attacks. Aras et al [30], focused on the effect that the Spreading Factor plays in jamming devices on a LoRaWAN network, but limited the attacks to a device sending on a single channel. The duty cycles used by a device in LoRaWAN will depends on whether the device uses single channel or multiple channels.…”

Section: Threat Model: Denial Of Service In Lorawanmentioning

confidence: 99%

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IoT security vulnerabilities and predictive signal jamming attack analysis in LoRaWAN

Ingham¹,

Marchang²,

Bhowmik

2020

IET Information Security

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Internet of Things (IoT) gains popularity in recent times due to its flexibility, usability, diverse applicability and ease of deployment. However, the issues related to security is less explored. The IoT devices are light weight in nature and have low computation power, low battery life and low memory. As incorporating security features are resource expensive, IoT devices are often found to be less protected and in recent times, more IoT devices have been routinely attacked due to high profile security flaws. This paper aims to explore the security vulnerabilities of IoT devices particularly that use Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs). In this work, LoRaWAN based IoT security vulnerabilities are scrutinised and loopholes are identified. An attack was designed and simulated with the use of a predictive model of the device data generation. The paper demonstrated that by predicting the data generation model, jamming attack can be carried out to block devices from sending data successfully. This research will aid in the continual development of any necessary countermeasures and mitigations for LoRaWAN and LPWAN functionality of IoT networks in general.

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Section: Threat Model: Denial Of Service In Lorawanmentioning

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IoT security vulnerabilities and predictive signal jamming attack analysis in LoRaWAN

Ingham¹,

Marchang²,

Bhowmik

2020

IET Information Security

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“…Once a decision to jam has been made, a notification is sent to the jammer to jam the packet immediately. To prevent wormhole attack, the authors in [ 67 ] proposed that the two devices (sniffer and jammer) must be kept separate to prevent sniffer from recording the original message and to circumvent jamming of the messages. In sybil attack, a malicious device from intruders illegally creates numerous identities in the network and the identities are used to gain a disproportionately large influence within the network [ 68 ].…”

Section: Lpwan Security Analysismentioning

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“…The most common DoS attack include DNS flood, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) broadcast and SYN flood [ 75 , 76 ]. The authors in [ 67 ] highlighted jamming attack (a subset of DoS attack) as a major security issue in LoRa and LoRaWAN. With regards to LPWAN availability menaces mitigations, several encryption models, IDSs and other security measures have been proposed in the literature.…”

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A Survey on the Security of Low Power Wide Area Networks: Threats, Challenges, and Potential Solutions

Alimi

Ouahada

Abu‐Mahfouz

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Low power wide area network (LPWAN) is among the fastest growing networks in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Owing to varieties of outstanding features which include long range communication and low power consumption, LPWANs are fast becoming the most widely deployed connectivity standards in IoT domain. However, this promising network are exposed to various security and privacy threats and challenges. For reliable connectivity within networks, the security and privacy challenges need to be effectively addressed with proper mitigation protocol in place. In this paper, a comprehensive review on the security feature of LPWAN is presented. The paper mainly focuses on analyzing LPWAN’s key cybersecurity architecture and it present a significant emphasis on how the LPWAN is highly attractive to intruders and attackers. This paper aims at summarizing recent research works on key LPWAN security challenges such as replay attack, denial-of-service attack, worm hole attack, and eavesdropping attack, the effect of the attacks, and most importantly the various approaches proposed in the literature for the attacks’ mitigation. The paper concludes by highlighting major research gaps and future directions for the successful deployment of LPWAN.

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“…Naoui et al [11] compare existing key management protocols for IoT, and propose to add proxy nodes that drive a reputation system to enhance the security mechanisms of LoRaWAN. Aras et al [12] highlight security issues at the physical layer, and develop practical attacks around selective jamming. Countermeasures and suggestions are given to mitigate these attacks.…”

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Security Vulnerabilities in LoRaWAN

Yang

Karampatzakis²,

Doerr

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE/ACM Third International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI)

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LoRaWAN is a MAC-layer protocol for long-range low-power communication. Since its release in 2015, it has experienced a rapid adoption in the field of Internet-of-Things (IoT). However, given that LoRaWAN is fairly novel, its level of security has not been thoroughly analyzed, which is the main objective of this paper. We highlight the security features present in LoRaWAN, namely activation methods, key management, cryptography, counter management, and message acknowledgement. Subsequently, we discover and analyze several vulnerabilities of LoRaWAN. In particular, we design and describe 5 attacks: (1) a replay attack that leads to a selective denial-of-service on individual IoT devices, (2) plaintext recovery, (3) malicious message modification, (4) falsification of delivery reports, and (5) a battery exhaustion attack. As a proof-ofconcept, the attacks are implemented and executed in a controlled LoRaWAN environment. Finally, we discuss how these attacks can be mitigated or protected against.

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Selective Jamming of LoRaWAN using Commodity Hardware

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IoT security vulnerabilities and predictive signal jamming attack analysis in LoRaWAN

IoT security vulnerabilities and predictive signal jamming attack analysis in LoRaWAN

A Survey on the Security of Low Power Wide Area Networks: Threats, Challenges, and Potential Solutions

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