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Over the last years, threat intelligence sharing has steadily grown, leading cybersecurity professionals to access increasingly larger amounts of heterogeneous data. Among those, cyber attacks' Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Valentine Legoy , Marco Caselli , Christin Seifert , Andreas Peter

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is being used to search for indicators of attacks that might have compromised an enterprise network for a long time without being discovered. To have a more effective analysis, CTI open standards have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Sadegh M. Milajerdi , Birhanu Eshete , Rigel Gjomemo , V. N. Venkatakrishnan

To address the increasing complexity and frequency of cybersecurity incidents emphasized by the recent cybersecurity threat reports with over 10 billion instances, cyber threat intelligence (CTI) plays a critical role in the modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hangyuan Ji , Jian Yang , Linzheng Chai , Chaoren Wei , Liqun Yang , Yunlong Duan , Yunli Wang , Tianzhen Sun , Hongcheng Guo , Tongliang Li , Changyu Ren , Zhoujun Li

Developing intelligent, interoperable Cyber Threat Information (CTI) sharing technologies can help build strong defences against modern cyber threats. CTIs allow the community to share information about cybercriminals' threats and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alexandros Papanikolaou , Aggelos Alevizopoulos , Christos Ilioudis , Konstantinos Demertzis , Konstantinos Rantos

As the number and sophistication of cyber attacks have increased, threat hunting has become a critical aspect of active security, enabling proactive detection and mitigation of threats before they cause significant harm. Open-source cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuval Schwartz , Lavi Benshimol , Dudu Mimran , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Cyber threat hunting is the practice of proactively searching for latent threats in a network. Engaging in threat hunting can be difficult due to the volume of network traffic, variety of adversary techniques, and constantly evolving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Matthew J. Turner , Mike Carenzo , Jackie Lasky , James Morris-King , James Ross

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

While the Web has become a global platform for communication, malicious actors, including hackers and hacktivist groups, often disseminate ideological content and coordinate activities through the "Dark Web", an obscure counterpart of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jubin Abhishek Soni , Amit Anand , Rajesh Kumar Pandey , Aniket Abhishek Soni

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

Analyzing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) from large volumes of data is critical for drafting and publishing comprehensive CTI reports. This process usually follows a three-stage workflow -- triage, deep search and TI drafting. While Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiangsen Chen , Xuan Feng , Shuo Chen , Matthieu Maitre , Sudipto Rakshit , Diana Duvieilh , Ashley Picone , Nan Tang

The knowledge on attacks contained in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports is very important to effectively identify and quickly respond to cyber threats. However, this knowledge is often embedded in large amounts of text, and therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Kiavash Satvat , Rigel Gjomemo , V. N. Venkatakrishnan

In military organizations, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) supports cyberspace operations by providing the commander with essential information about the adversary, their capabilities and objectives as they operate through cyberspace. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Oscar Sandoval Carlos

Open-source cyber threat intelligence (OSCTI) has become essential for keeping up with the rapidly changing threat landscape. However, current OSCTI gathering and management solutions mainly focus on structured Indicators of Compromise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Peng Gao , Xiaoyuan Liu , Edward Choi , Sibo Ma , Xinyu Yang , Dawn Song

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is essential for effective system defense. CTI is a collection of information about current or past threats to a computer system. This information is gathered by an agent through observation, or based on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Laurent Bobelin , Sabine Frittella , Mariam Wehbe

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

The objectives of cyberattacks are becoming sophisticated, and attackers are concealing their identity by masquerading as other attackers. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is gaining attention as a way to collect meaningful knowledge to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Daegeon Kim , Huy Kang Kim

Cyber-attacks keep threatening global networks and information infrastructures. The threat is getting more and more destructive and hard to counter day by day as the global networks continue to enlarge exponentially with limited security…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Ahmet Orun , Emre Orun , Fatih Kurugollu

In recent years, the advances in digitalisation have also adversely contributed to the significant rise in cybercrimes. Hence, building the threat intelligence to shield against rising cybercrimes has become a fundamental requisite.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Cebajel Tanan , Sameer G. Kulkarni , Tamal Das , Manjesh K. Hanawal

Defending against today's increasingly sophisticated and large-scale cyberattacks demands accurate, real-time threat intelligence. Traditional approaches struggle to scale, integrate diverse telemetry, and adapt to a constantly evolving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Scott Freitas , Amir Gharib

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) enables organizations to anticipate, detect, and mitigate evolving cyber threats. Its effectiveness depends on high-quality datasets, which support model development, training, evaluation, and benchmarking.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dincy R. Arikkat , Sneha B. T. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P. , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Karthika R