TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying, collecting, and presenting hacker community data
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2018
AU - Du, Po Yi
AU - Zhang, Ning
AU - Ebrahimi, Mohammedreza
AU - Samtani, Sagar
AU - Lazarine, Ben
AU - Arnold, Nolan
AU - Dunn, Rachael
AU - Suntwal, Sandeep
AU - Angeles, Guadalupe
AU - Schweitzer, Robert
AU - Chen, Hsinchun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/24
Y1 - 2018/12/24
N2 - Cyber-attacks cost the global economy over $450 billion annually. To combat this issue, researchers and practitioners put enormous efforts into developing Cyber Threat Intelligence, or the process of identifying emerging threats and key hackers. However, the reliance on internal network data to has resulted in inherently reactive intelligence. CTI experts have urged the importance of proactively studying the large, ever-evolving online hacker community. Despite their CTI value, collecting data from hacker community platforms is a non-trivial task. In this paper, we summarize our efforts in systematically identifying and automatically collecting a large-scale of hacker forums, carding shops, Internet-Relay-Chat, and Dark Net Marketplaces. We also present our efforts to provide this data to the larger CTI community via the AZSecure Hacker Assets Portal (www.azsecure-hap.com). With our methodology, we collected 102 platforms for a total of 43,981,647 records. To the best of our knowledge, this compilation of hacker community data is the largest such collection in academia.
AB - Cyber-attacks cost the global economy over $450 billion annually. To combat this issue, researchers and practitioners put enormous efforts into developing Cyber Threat Intelligence, or the process of identifying emerging threats and key hackers. However, the reliance on internal network data to has resulted in inherently reactive intelligence. CTI experts have urged the importance of proactively studying the large, ever-evolving online hacker community. Despite their CTI value, collecting data from hacker community platforms is a non-trivial task. In this paper, we summarize our efforts in systematically identifying and automatically collecting a large-scale of hacker forums, carding shops, Internet-Relay-Chat, and Dark Net Marketplaces. We also present our efforts to provide this data to the larger CTI community via the AZSecure Hacker Assets Portal (www.azsecure-hap.com). With our methodology, we collected 102 platforms for a total of 43,981,647 records. To the best of our knowledge, this compilation of hacker community data is the largest such collection in academia.
KW - Carding Shops
KW - Dark Net Marketplaces
KW - Hacker community data collection
KW - Hacker forums
KW - Internet-Relay-Chat
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U2 - 10.1109/ISI.2018.8587327
DO - 10.1109/ISI.2018.8587327
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061029977
T3 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2018
SP - 70
EP - 75
BT - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2018
A2 - Lee, Dongwon
A2 - Mezzour, Ghita
A2 - Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
A2 - Saxena, Nitesh
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 9 November 2018 through 11 November 2018
ER -