My thoughts on the ALPACA Attack (Detailed analysis)
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The ALPACA attack stands for application layer protocol confusion attack and discovered by a group of German computer scientists. Let us spend some time analyzing how this attack really works and how dangerous this is.
Resources
https://alpaca-attack.com/ALPACA.pdf
https://var.thejh.net/http_ftp_cross_protocol_mitm_attacks.pdf
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/alpaca-code
https://github.com/RUB-NDS/alpaca-code/blob/master/testlab/servers/files/nginx-attacker/html/upload/ftps.html
https://twitter.com/lambdafu/status/1404567396443164683
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