Helping forensic analysts to attribute cyber-attacks: an argumentation-based reasoner
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Author(s)
Karafili, E
Wang, Linna
Kakas, Antonis
Lupu, Emil
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Discovering who performed a cyber-attack or from where it originated
is essential in order to determine an appropriate response and future risk mitigation measures. In this work, we propose a novel argumentation-based reasoner for analyzing and attributing cyber-attacks that combines both technical and social evidence. Our reasoner helps the digital forensics analyst during the analysis of the forensic evidence by providing to the analyst the possible culprits of the attack, new derived evidence, hints about missing evidence, and insights about other paths of investigation. The proposed reasoner is flexible, deals with conflicting and incomplete evidence,
and was tested on real cyber-attacks cases.
is essential in order to determine an appropriate response and future risk mitigation measures. In this work, we propose a novel argumentation-based reasoner for analyzing and attributing cyber-attacks that combines both technical and social evidence. Our reasoner helps the digital forensics analyst during the analysis of the forensic evidence by providing to the analyst the possible culprits of the attack, new derived evidence, hints about missing evidence, and insights about other paths of investigation. The proposed reasoner is flexible, deals with conflicting and incomplete evidence,
and was tested on real cyber-attacks cases.
Date Issued
2018-10-29
Date Acceptance
2018-09-03
Citation
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2018, 11224, pp.510-518
ISBN
978-3-030-03098-8
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
510
End Page
518
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Volume
11224
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018.
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
746667
Source
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2018)
Subjects
Attribution of Cyber-Attacks
Cyber-Attacks
Digital Forensics
Automatic Reasoner
Preference-based Argumentation
Forensics Evidence
Social Evidence
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2018-10-24
Finish Date
2018-11-02
Coverage Spatial
Tokyo, Japan