Enhanced Attribution Program To Identify & Track Hackers Worldwide

Pentagon researchers at DARPA expect to solve a problemby early 2018  that has often prevented law enforcement and hack victims from identifying cybercriminals with confidence.

The program seeks to develop “technologies to extract behavioral and physical biometrics from a range of devices and vantage points to consistently identify virtual personas and individual malicious cyber operators over time and across different endpoint devices and C2 infrastructures,” the solicitation states, using an acronym for command and control.

Without adequate analysis and algorithms, mass surveillance is not the answer to fighting terrorism and tracking suspects.

There is no doubt that US Government is collecting a vast quantity of data from your smartphone to every connected device i.e. Internet of the things, but…Do they have enough capabilities to predict and identify terrorists or cyber criminals or state-sponsored hackers before they act?

Well, if they had, I would not be getting chance to write about so many brutal cyber-attacks, data breaches, and terrorist attacks that not only threatened Americans but also impacted people worldwide.

The Ex-NSA technical director William E. Binney, who served the US National Security Agency for over 30-years, said last year in the front of Parliamentary Joint Committee that forcing analysts to examine billions of records crush their ability to identify actual threats.

Technology to Track and Identify Hackers

Now, the Pentagon wants a better way to not only identify the malicious hacker but also looking for practical algorithms that can predict where that hacker might attack next.

Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) is offering funding for security researchers who can help the agency to develop algorithms that can identify hackers under its new game-changing initiative called ‘Enhanced Attribution Program’.

Although organizations and countries give their best to identify cyber campaigns who infiltrated their critical infrastructure, tracking down the culprits has always been a difficult task — thanks to TOR, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and other methods used to hide the attack source.

However, through this new initiative, the United States military research agency DARPA hopes that agencies would quickly track and identify sophisticated hackers or criminal groups by monitoring their exact behavior and physical biometrics.

The aim of Enhanced Attribution program is to track personas continuously and create “algorithms for developing predictive behavioral profiles.”

"The goal of the Enhanced Attribution (EA) program is to develop technologies for generating operationally and tactically relevant information about multiple concurrent independent malicious cyber campaigns, each involving several operators; and the means to share such information with any of a number of interested parties without putting at risk the sources and methods used for collection," reads the project’s official site.

In other words, the Enhanced Attribution Program will not only help the government characterize the cyber-criminal but also share the criminal’s modus operandi with potential victims and predict the attacker’s next target.

DefenseOne: http://bit.ly/1ThfdJH
Hacker News: http://bit.ly/1rZ7ki9

« 'Guccifer' Claims He Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Server
Unified Cyber Command To Help US React Faster »

CyberSecurity Jobsite
Perimeter 81

Directory of Suppliers

BackupVault

BackupVault

BackupVault is a leading provider of automatic cloud backup and critical data protection against ransomware, insider attacks and hackers for businesses and organisations worldwide.

Cyber Security Supplier Directory

Cyber Security Supplier Directory

Our Supplier Directory lists 6,000+ specialist cyber security service providers in 128 countries worldwide. IS YOUR ORGANISATION LISTED?

Clayden Law

Clayden Law

Clayden Law advise global businesses that buy and sell technology products and services. We are experts in information technology, data privacy and cybersecurity law.

Practice Labs

Practice Labs

Practice Labs is an IT competency hub, where live-lab environments give access to real equipment for hands-on practice of essential cybersecurity skills.

Authentic8

Authentic8

Authentic8 transforms how organizations secure and control the use of the web with Silo, its patented cloud browser.

InfoSec People

InfoSec People

InfoSec People is a boutique cyber and technology recruitment consultancy, built by genuine experts.

AON

AON

Aon is a leading global provider of risk management (including cyber), insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human resources solutions and outsourcing services.

Deductive Labs

Deductive Labs

Deductive Labs consulting services help customers with their technology, security and automation challenges.

RIPS Technologies

RIPS Technologies

RIPS Technologies delivers automated security analysis for PHP applications as platform independent software or highly scalable cloud service.

AlAnsari Technical Solutions (ATS)

AlAnsari Technical Solutions (ATS)

ATS is a Kuwait based company specialised in delivering hardware/software, Virtualisation, IP Telephony / Unified Communication, Networking and professional IT services and solutions.

Corvus Insurance

Corvus Insurance

Corvus' mission is to create a safer, more productive world through technology-enabled commercial insurance.

LaoCERT

LaoCERT

LaoCERT is the national Computer Incident Response Team for Laos.

TalaTek

TalaTek

TalaTek is a full-service risk management firm providing expert services in risk management, cybersecurity, and compliance.

Digital Craftsmen Ltd

Digital Craftsmen Ltd

We're ISO27001 & Cyber Essentials Cybersecurity experts, delivering full cloud security and managed services. We take a bespoke approach for each client from hosting, optimising & securing them online

Robo Shadow

Robo Shadow

Robo Shadow are trying to bridge the gap between the top tier organisations that can afford everything and everyone else who has to “Make it up as they go along” when it comes to Cyber.

Trusted Technologies and Solutions (TTS)

Trusted Technologies and Solutions (TTS)

TTS is a security consulting company specialised on business continuity and crisis management, information security management, information risk management and identity and access management.

Ethiopian Cybersecurity Association (ECySA)

Ethiopian Cybersecurity Association (ECySA)

ECySA was formed to play an influential part in the ongoing and dawning cybersecurity practices of Ethiopia, efficiently creating public and private awareness on all kinds of cyber risks and threats.

CXI Solutions

CXI Solutions

CXI Solutions: Your trusted partner in cybersecurity. We offer a full range of cybersecurity solutions to protect your business from digital attacks and virtual threats.

DHCO IT

DHCO IT

The DHCO IT team are experts in IT support, cyber security, cloud support and disaster recovery, and are Microsoft 365 partners.

Cakewalk

Cakewalk

Cakewalk is the new standard in easy Access Control. Trusted by IT & Security teams. Loved by employees.

Corix Partners

Corix Partners

Corix Partners is a Boutique Management Consultancy Firm focused on assisting CIOs and other C-level executives in resolving Cyber Security Strategy, Organisation and Governance challenges.