The number of cybersecurity threats has been increasing, and these threats have become
more sophisticated year after year. Malicious hosts play a large role in modern cyberattacks …

Modern attacks against enterprises often have multiple targets inside the enterprise network.
Due to the large size of these networks and increasingly stealthy attacks, attacker activities …

The number of cybernetic threats is rising with new vulnerabilities and forms of attacks being
discovered on a daily basis. Security is not a state, but a process, which means that we need …

In this short paper, we take a first step towards empirically assessing Internet-wide malicious
activities generated from and targeted towards Internet-scale business sectors (ie, financial …

WOMBAT: towards a Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and Attack Threats Page
1 TF-CSIRT 2006 WOMBAT: towards a Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and …

Computer networks provide an excellent environment for stealth reconnaissance activities.
Modern computer systems are predominantly connected to a network. Recent events like …

The emerging advanced persistent threats (APT) have become a significant threat to
enterprise network security. Carrying out the attack's causality analysis can help the cyber …

Advanced cyberattacks are carried out in multiple stages, where each stage performs a
specific task corresponding to the campaign. While these steps are designed to blend in with …

As attacks toward the Internet become more sophisticated, destructive and widespread,
especially those distributed attacks that exploit multiple launching sites, security systems that …

When security flaws are discovered in software systems, vendors and/or developers resolve
them by releasing patches that fix those security flaws. However, releasing these patches …