Emerging Industry Trends and Threat Methods

Large-Scale IPv6 Internet Reconnaissance

Thursday, May 29, 2025 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Description
It has been shown that the IPv4 Internet can be easily scanned and bad actors are constantly scanning for vulnerable targets. For years we have assumed that the IPv6 address space was too vast to feasibly perform large-scale scanning. Advancements in Internet scanning techniques have now made IPv6 Internet scanning possible. This talk reviews the state-of-the-art methods of IPv6 Target Generation Algorithms (TGAs), IPv6 packet probing methods, and the scanning tools that make this possible. This talk will also show a demonstration of how hit-lists and these scanning tools can reach numerous target hosts over IPv6 transport.