Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining

The important and rapidly emerging new field known as 'cyber threat intelligence' explores the paradigm that defenders of computer networks gain a better understanding of their adversaries by understanding what assets they have available for an attack. In this book, a team of experts examines a new type of cyber threat intelligence from the heart of the malicious hacking underworld - the dark web. These highly secure sites have allowed anonymous communities of malicious hackers to exchange ideas and techniques, and to buy/sell malware and exploits. Aimed at both cybersecurity practitioners and researchers, this book represents a first step toward a better understanding of malicious hacking communities on the dark web and what to do about them. The authors examine real-world darkweb data through a combination of human and automated techniques to gain insight into these communities, describing both methodology and results.

• Describes methods for automatically analyzing cyber threat intelligence, providing ideas for practical use by operational cybersecurity professionals
• Allows for data-driven decision support to cyber-defenders and the modeling of worst-case scenarios
• Melds cyber security, social science and data mining in an integrative fashion, paving the way for future research