4 papers
High-Precision APT Malware Attribution with Out-of-Scope Resilience
Peter Williams, Adam Sobey, Erisa Karafili
Early attribution of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity can help defenders prioritise investigation, select countermeasures, and reduce the impact of an intrusion. Malware p…
Evaluating Explanation Quality in X-IDS Using Feature Alignment Metrics
Mohammed Alquliti, Erisa Karafili, BooJoong Kang
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have become increasingly important in the context of explainable intrusion detection systems (X-IDSs) for improving the interpreta…
A RAG-Based Question-Answering Solution for Cyber-Attack Investigation and Attribution
Sampath Rajapaksha, Ruby Rani, Erisa Karafili
In the constantly evolving field of cybersecurity, it is imperative for analysts to stay abreast of the latest attack trends and pertinent information that aids in the investigatio…
AttackER: Towards Enhancing Cyber-Attack Attribution with a Named Entity Recognition Dataset
Pritam Deka, Sampath Rajapaksha, Ruby Rani +2
Cyber-attack attribution is an important process that allows experts to put in place attacker-oriented countermeasures and legal actions. The analysts mainly perform attribution ma…