
Exploring Malicious Hacker Communities
Toward Proactive Cyber-Defense
Cambridge University Press
Published on 29. April 2021
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-108-49159-4 (ISBN)
Description
Malicious hackers utilize the World Wide Web to share knowledge. Analyzing the online communication of these threat actors can help reduce the risk of attacks. This book shifts attention from the defender environment to the attacker environment, offering a new security paradigm of 'proactive cyber threat intelligence' that allows defenders of computer networks to gain a better understanding of their adversaries by analyzing assets, capabilities, and interest of malicious hackers. The authors propose models, techniques, and frameworks based on threat intelligence mined from the heart of the underground cyber world: the malicious hacker communities. They provide insights into the hackers themselves and the groups they form dynamically in the act of exchanging ideas and techniques, buying or selling malware, and exploits. The book covers both methodology - a hybridization of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and social network analysis methods - and the resulting conclusions, detailing how a deep understanding of malicious hacker communities can be the key to designing better attack prediction systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-49159-4 (9781108491594)
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E-Book
04/2021
Cambridge University Press
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Ericsson Marin | Mohammed Almukaynizi | Soumajyoti Sarkar
Exploring Malicious Hacker Communities
Toward Proactive Cyber-Defense
E-Book
04/2021
Cambridge University Press
€49.99
Available for download
Persons
Author
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Foreword
Content
Foreword Edward G. Amoroso; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; Part I. Understanding the Behavior of Malicious Hackers: 3. Mining key-hackers; 4. Reasoning about hacker engagement; 5. Uncovering communities of malware and exploit vendors; Part II. Predicting Imminent Cyber Threats: 6. Identifying exploits in the wild proactively; 7. Predicting enterprise-targeted external cyber-attacks; 8. Bringing social network analysis to aid in cyber-attack prediction; 9. Finding at-risk systems without software vulnerability identifiers (CVE's); 10. Final considerations.