Darknet Mining for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence

post by morganism · 2016-08-06T01:19:06.138Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 2 comments

They are using machine learning to comb the darknets, capturing about 300 threats a week.

About 90% hack application and backdoor recognition, that is for sale, and about 80% hacker forum vulnerability identification.

"These threat warnings include information on newly developed malware and exploits that have not yet been deployed in a cyber-attack"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08583

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comment by Gurkenglas · 2016-08-08T11:08:19.303Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Why'd they make this public?

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comment by gwern · 2016-08-08T17:26:41.808Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Advertising. You can't get credit for publication unless you publish. Also hard to do consulting.