Predicting enterprise cyber incidents using social network analysis on dark web hacker forums

S Sarkar, M Almukaynizi, J Shakarian… - The Cyber Defense …, 2019 - JSTOR
With the rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing
need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of possible attacks in an …

Mining user interaction patterns in the darkweb to predict enterprise cyber incidents

S Sarkar, M Almukaynizi, J Shakarian… - Social Network Analysis …, 2019 - Springer
With the rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing
need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of possible attacks in an …

Predicting cyber threats through hacker social networks in darkweb and deepweb forums

M Almukaynizi, A Grimm, E Nunes… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We present an approach that combines social network analysis with machine learning
techniques to predict future cyber threats through darkweb/deepweb discussions with …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting cyber threats through the dynamics of user connectivity in darkweb and deepweb forums

M Almukaynizi, A Grimm, E Nunes… - ACM Computational …, 2017 - usc-isi-i2.github.io
The existing methods for assessing the likelihood of exploitation for software vulnerabilities
are found to have many limitationpreventing them from being useful tools for prioritization of …

Predicting cyber-events by leveraging hacker sentiment

A Deb, K Lerman, E Ferrara - Information, 2018 - mdpi.com
Recent high-profile cyber-attacks exemplify why organizations need better cyber-defenses.
Cyber-threats are hard to accurately predict because attackers usually try to mask their …

Analyzing the perceived severity of cybersecurity threats reported on social media

S Zong, A Ritter, G Mueller, E Wright - arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10680, 2019 - arxiv.org
Breaking cybersecurity events are shared across a range of websites, including security
blogs (FireEye, Kaspersky, etc.), in addition to social media platforms such as Facebook and …

[PDF][PDF] Finding malicious cyber discussions in social media

RP Lippmann, WM Campbell… - Lincoln Laboratory …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Today's analysts manually examine social media networks to find discussions concerning
planned cyber attacks, attacker techniques and tools, and potential victims. Applying modern …

Understanding cyber attack behaviors with sentiment information on social media

K Shu, A Sliva, J Sampson, H Liu - … 2018, Washington, DC, USA, July 10 …, 2018 - Springer
In today's increasingly connected world, cyber attacks have become a serious threat with
detrimental effects on individuals, businesses, and broader society. Truly mitigating the …

Identifying digital threats in a hacker web forum

M Macdonald, R Frank, J Mei, B Monk - Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Information threatening the security of critical infrastructures are exchanged over the Internet
through communication platforms, such as online discussion forums. This information can be …

" Leadership in Action: How Top Hackers Behave" A Big-Data Approach with Text-Mining and Sentiment Analysis

B Biswas, A Mukhopadhyay, G Gupta - 2018 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
This paper examines hacker behavior in dark forums and identifies its significant predictors
in the light of" leadership theory" for" communities of practice." We combine techniques from …