Identifying digital threats in a hacker web forum
Title | Identifying digital threats in a hacker web forum |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Macdonald, M., Frank, R., Mei, J., Monk, B. |
Conference Name | 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) |
Date Published | aug |
Keywords | automated analysis tools, communication platform, Computer crime, Computer hacking, critical computer networks, critical infrastructure, critical infrastructures, customized Web-crawler, cyber-attacks, data mining, data querying, data systems, Databases, digital threat identification, Discussion forums, discussion posts, hacker language analysis, hacker Web forum, Hacking, HTML, Internet, malicious hackers, natural language processing, parts of speech tagger, pubcrawl170109, query processing, sentiment analysis, sentiment analysis tool, Social network services |
Abstract | Information threatening the security of critical infrastructures are exchanged over the Internet through communication platforms, such as online discussion forums. This information can be used by malicious hackers to attack critical computer networks and data systems. Much of the literature on the hacking of critical infrastructure has focused on developing typologies of cyber-attacks, but has not examined the communication activities of the actors involved. To address this gap in the literature, the language of hackers was analyzed to identify potential threats against critical infrastructures using automated analysis tools. First, discussion posts were collected from a selected hacker forum using a customized web-crawler. Posts were analyzed using a parts of speech tagger, which helped determine a list of keywords used to query the data. Next, a sentiment analysis tool scored these keywords, which were then analyzed to determine the effectiveness of this method. |
DOI | 10.1145/2808797.2808878 |
Citation Key | macdonald_identifying_2015 |
- Discussion forums
- Social network services
- sentiment analysis tool
- sentiment analysis
- query processing
- pubcrawl170109
- parts of speech tagger
- natural language processing
- malicious hackers
- internet
- HTML
- Hacking
- hacker Web forum
- hacker language analysis
- discussion posts
- automated analysis tools
- digital threat identification
- Databases
- data systems
- data querying
- Data mining
- cyber-attacks
- customized Web-crawler
- critical infrastructures
- critical infrastructure
- critical computer networks
- Computer hacking
- Computer crime
- communication platform