TY - GEN
T1 - DISCOVER
T2 - 27th International World Wide Web, WWW 2018
AU - Sapienza, Anna
AU - Ernala, Sindhu Kiranmai
AU - Bessi, Alessandro
AU - Lerman, Kristina
AU - Ferrara, Emilio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.
PY - 2018/4/23
Y1 - 2018/4/23
N2 - Widespread adoption of networking technologies has brought about tremendous economic and social growth, but also exposed individuals and organization to new threats from malicious cyber actors. Recent attacks by WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware crypto-worms, infected hundreds of thousands of computer systems world wide, compromising data and critical infrastructure. In order to limit their impact, it is, therefore, critical to detect - -and even predict - -cyber attacks before they spread. Here, we introduce DISCOVER, an early cyber threat warning system, that mines online chatter from cyber actors on social media, security blogs, and darkweb forums, to identify words that signal potential cyber attacks. We evaluate DISCOVER and find that it can identify terms related to emerging cyber threats with precision above $80%$. DISCOVER also generates a time line of related online discussions on different Web sources that can be useful for analyzing emerging cyber threats.
AB - Widespread adoption of networking technologies has brought about tremendous economic and social growth, but also exposed individuals and organization to new threats from malicious cyber actors. Recent attacks by WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware crypto-worms, infected hundreds of thousands of computer systems world wide, compromising data and critical infrastructure. In order to limit their impact, it is, therefore, critical to detect - -and even predict - -cyber attacks before they spread. Here, we introduce DISCOVER, an early cyber threat warning system, that mines online chatter from cyber actors on social media, security blogs, and darkweb forums, to identify words that signal potential cyber attacks. We evaluate DISCOVER and find that it can identify terms related to emerging cyber threats with precision above $80%$. DISCOVER also generates a time line of related online discussions on different Web sources that can be useful for analyzing emerging cyber threats.
KW - cyber security
KW - cyber threat prediction
KW - web mining
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85061026475
U2 - 10.1145/3184558.3191528
DO - 10.1145/3184558.3191528
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061026475
T3 - The Web Conference 2018 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2018
SP - 983
EP - 990
BT - The Web Conference 2018 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 23 April 2018 through 27 April 2018
ER -