@article{tanveer2025unveiling,
	author = {Tanveer, Hammas Bin and Chan, Echo and Mok, Ricky K. P. and Kappes, Sebastian and Richter, Philipp and Gasser, Oliver and Ronan, John and Berger, Arthur and Claffy, kc},
	title = {{Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes}},
	year = {2025},
	issue_date = {September 2025},
	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	volume = {3},
	number = {CoNEXT3},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3749221},
	doi = {10.1145/3749221},
	abstract = {We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6 proactive telescope in a production ISP network, we collected over 600M packets of unsolicited traffic from 1.9k Autonomous Systems in 10 months. We characterized the sources of unsolicited traffic, evaluated the effectiveness of five major features across the network stack, and inferred scanners' sources of target addresses and their strategies.},
	journal = {Proc. ACM Netw.},
	month = sep,
	articleno = {21},
	numpages = {24},
	keywords = {internet scanning, ipv6, network telescopes, proactive telescopes}
}