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Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is central to modern cybersecurity, providing critical insights for detecting and mitigating evolving threats. With the natural language understanding and reasoning capabilities of large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yutong Cheng , Yang Liu , Changze Li , Dawn Song , Peng Gao

Cybersecurity researchers have contributed to the automated extraction of CTI from textual sources, such as threat reports and online articles, where cyberattack strategies, procedures, and tools are described. The goal of this article is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Md Rayhanur Rahman , Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh , Laurie Williams

This work evaluates the performance of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) extraction methods in identifying attack techniques from threat reports available on the web using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. We analyse four configurations utilising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Hoang Cuong Nguyen , Shahroz Tariq , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Bao Quoc Vo

With the proliferation of digitization and its usage in critical sectors, it is necessary to include information about the occurrence and assessment of cyber threats in an organization's threat mitigation strategy. This Cyber Threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Alfonso Iacovazzi , Han Wang , Ismail Butun , Shahid Raza

The rise of IT-dependent operations in modern organizations has heightened their vulnerability to cyberattacks. As a growing number of organizations include smart, interconnected devices in their systems to automate their processes, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Dincy R. Arikkat , Mert Cihangiroglu , Mauro Conti , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

Threat intelligence on malware attacks and campaigns is increasingly being shared with other security experts for a cost or for free. Other security analysts use this intelligence to inform them of indicators of compromise, attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Nidhi Rastogi , Sharmishtha Dutta , Mohammed J. Zaki , Alex Gittens , Charu Aggarwal

Proactive approaches to security, such as adversary emulation, leverage information about threat actors and their techniques (Cyber Threat Intelligence, CTI). However, most CTI still comes in unstructured forms (i.e., natural language),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Vittorio Orbinato , Mariarosaria Barbaraci , Roberto Natella , Domenico Cotroneo

The swift spread of fake news and disinformation campaigns poses a significant threat to public trust, political stability, and cybersecurity. Traditional Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) approaches, which rely on low-level indicators such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Domenico Cotroneo , Roberto Natella , Vittorio Orbinato

The rapid advancement of information technology has introduced a noticeable shift from traditional offline practices to more efficient and interconnected online environments. This transition, while offering convenience, has also increased…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Mohammed Mahir Rahman , Shahzad Memon , Tauseef Ahmed , Ameer Al-Nemrat

Verifying the credibility of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is essential for reliable cybersecurity defense. However, traditional approaches typically treat this task as a static classification problem, relying on handcrafted features or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Fengxiao Tang , Huan Li , Ming Zhao , Zongzong Wu , Shisong Peng , Tao Yin

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has emerged as a vital complementary approach that operates in the early phases of the cyber threat lifecycle. CTI involves collecting, processing, and analyzing threat data to provide a more accurate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Samaneh Shafee , Alysson Bessani , Pedro M. Ferreira

In today's digitally driven landscape, robust Information Technology (IT) risk assessment practices are essential for safeguarding systems, digital communication, and data. This paper introduces 'AssessITS', an actionable method designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Mir Mehedi Rahman , Naresh Kshetri , Sayed Abu Sayeed , Md Masud Rana

Despite the high volume of open-source Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), our understanding of long-term threat actor-victim dynamics remains fragmented due to inconsistent reporting standards and the lack of structured datasets containing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Manuel Suarez-Roman , Francesco Marchiori , Mauro Conti , Juan Tapiador

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the code summarization technique boosts a lot, along with the emergence of many new significant works. However, the potential of code summarization in the Computer Security Area still remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yifan Huang , Weisong Sun , Yubin Qu

No existing dataset adequately tests how well language models can incrementally update entity summaries - a crucial ability as these models rapidly advance. The Incremental Entity Summarization (IES) task is vital for maintaining accurate,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Eunjeong Hwang , Yichao Zhou , Beliz Gunel , James Bradley Wendt , Sandeep Tata

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is critical for mitigating threats to organizations, governments, and institutions, yet the necessary data are often dispersed across diverse formats. AI-driven solutions for CTI Information Extraction (IE)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Olga Sorokoletova , Emanuele Antonioni , Giordano Colò

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply embedded in critical services and everyday products, it is increasingly exposed to security threats which traditional cyber defenses were not designed to handle. In this paper, we investigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Natalia Krawczyk , Mateusz Szczepkowski , Adrian Brodzik , Krzysztof Bocianiak

Current summarization systems yield generic summaries that are disconnected from users' preferences and expectations. To address this limitation, we present CTRLsum, a novel framework for controllable summarization. Our approach enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Junxian He , Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Nazneen Rajani , Caiming Xiong

The extraction of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) from open sources is a rapidly expanding defensive strategy that enhances the resilience of both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments against large-scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Prasasthy Balasubramanian , Sadaf Nazari , Danial Khosh Kholgh , Alireza Mahmoodi , Justin Seby , Panos Kostakos

Cybersecurity has become a crucial concern in the field of connected autonomous vehicles. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI), as the collection of cyber threat information, offers an ideal way for responding to emerging cyber threats and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yinghui Wang , Yilong Ren , Zhiyong Cui , Haiyang Yu