Cyberthreat News
Cyberthreat news can be broken down into several categories. These include cybersecurity related news articles, forum discussions, social media posts and threat reports. This is in part due to the fact that cybersecurity practitioners write blogs and post content on social media. These are also a source of cutting edge information regarding the latest cybersecurity attacks.
Aside from these sources, cybersecurity researchers have looked into automated extraction of CTI information from textual sources. This gives IT organizations the means to build tools to combat malicious attempts. One of the key techniques to extract the most relevant information is the graph data structure. The underlying concept of the graph data structure is to identify the hacker in question. It could be a human, a computer or even a bot.
Another nifty little trick is to aggregate similar text segments. This is achieved through a variety of clustering techniques such as DBSCAN and hierarchical. The most common technique used is k-means. The data structure is able to recognize the most relevant text from the plethora of unrelated information.
Aside from the CTI mentioned above, the AZSecure platform is a good example of how to identify the latest in cyberattacks. It enables security researchers to visualize the various steps involved in a cyberattack. It also provides a means to identify the most interesting cyberthreats for further analysis.
A few examples of such reputable cybersecurity related websites and blogs include We Live Security, AlienVault, and Threatpost. While these sources offer a wealth of cybersecurity related information, it is the darknet that can offer the most strategic CTI.