A First Joint Look at DoS Attacks and BGP Blackholing in the Wild
Mattijs Jonker, Aiko Pras, Alberto Dainotti, Anna Sperotto · 2018
BGP blackholing is an operational countermeasure that builds upon the capabilities of BGP to achieve DoS mitigation. Although empirical evidence of blackholing activities are documented in literature, a clear understanding of how blackholing is used in practice when attacks occur is still missing.