Darknet Mining for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence

3 Post author: morganism 06 August 2016 01:19AM

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

Comments (2)

Comment author: Gurkenglas 08 August 2016 11:08:19AM *  1 point [-]

Why'd they make this public?

Comment author: gwern 08 August 2016 05:26:41PM 1 point [-]

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