Chapter Twenty: Attacks on blockchain☆
Shubhani Aggarwal; Neeraj Kumar Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India
Abstract
The blockchain network is generally to be considered as secure and scalable but their security level is directly proportional to the amount of hash computing power that supports the blockchain. As the miners increase in the mining process the more difficult for an attacker to attack the blockchain. Several ways a blockchain can be attacked. Performing these attacks such as Finney attack, race attack, 51% attack, eclipse attack, Sybil attack, DDoS, routing attack, DAO attack, parity multisig parity attack on a blockchain becomes more difficult as more computing power is added to the network. ...
