• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

An operation of an organization is currently using a digital environment which opens to potential cyber-attacks. These phenomena become worst as the cyberattack landscape is changing rapidly. The impact of cyber-attacks varies depending on the scope of the organization and the value of assets that need to be protected. It is difficult to assess the damage to an organization from cyberattacks due to a lack of understanding of tools, metrics, and knowledge on the type of attacks and their impacts. Hence, this paper aims to identify domains and sub-domains of cyber-attack taxonomy to facilitate the understanding of cyber-attacks. Four phases are carried in this research: identify existing cyber-attack taxonomy, determine and classify domains and sub-domains of cyber-attack, and construct the enhanced cyber-attack taxonomy. The existing cyber-attack taxonomies are analyzed, domains and sub-domains are selected based on the focus and objectives of the research, and the proposed taxonomy named AVOIDITALS Cyber-attack Taxonomy is constructed. AVOIDITALS consists of 8 domains, 105 sub-domains, 142 sub-sub-domains, and 90 other sub-sub-domains that act as a guideline to assist administrators in determining cyber-attacks through cyber-attacks pattern identification that commonly occurred on digital infrastructure and provide the best prevention method to minimize impact. This research can be further developed in line with the emergence of new types and categories of current cyberattacks and the future.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.995-1001
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• 2020

With the development of digital instrumentation and control (I&C) devices, cyber security at nuclear power plants (NPPs) has become a hot issue. The Stuxnet, which destroyed Iran's uranium enrichment facility in 2010, suggests that NPPs could even lead to an accident involving the release of radioactive materials cyber-attacks. However, cyber security research on industrial control systems (ICSs) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems is relatively inadequate compared to information technology (IT) and further it is difficult to study cyber-attack taxonomy for NPPs considering the characteristics of ICSs. The advanced research of cyber-attack taxonomy does not reflect the architectural and inherent characteristics of NPPs and lacks a systematic countermeasure strategy. Therefore, it is necessary to more systematically check the consistency of operators and regulators related to cyber security, as in regulatory guide 5.71 (RG.5.71) and regulatory standard 015 (RS.015). For this reason, this paper attempts to suggest a template for cyber-attack taxonomy based on the characteristics of NPPs and exemplifies a specific cyber-attack case in the template. In addition, this paper proposes a systematic countermeasure strategy by matching the countermeasure with critical digital assets (CDAs). The cyber-attack cases investigated using the proposed cyber-attack taxonomy can be used as data for evaluation and validation of cyber security conformance for digital devices to be applied, and as effective prevention and mitigation for cyber-attacks of NPPs.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.4 s.107
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• pp.405-414
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• 2006

We present a symptom based taxonomy for network security. This taxonomy classifies attacks in the network using early symptoms of the attacks. Since we use the symptom it is relatively easy to access the information to classify the attack. Furthermore we are able to classify the unknown attack because the symptoms of unknown attacks are correlated with the one of known attacks. The taxonomy classifies the attack in two stages. In the first stage, the taxonomy identifies the attack in a single connection and then, combines the single connections into the aggregated connections to check if the attacks among single connections may create the distribute attack over the aggregated connections. Hence, it is possible to attain the high accuracy in identifying such complex attacks as DDoS, Worm and Bot We demonstrate the classification of the three major attacks in Internet using the proposed taxonomy.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.865-889
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• 2019

The need for cyber resilience is increasingly important in our technology-dependent society where computing devices and data have been, and will continue to be, the target of cyber-attackers, particularly advanced persistent threat (APT) and nation-state/sponsored actors. APT and nation-state/sponsored actors tend to be more sophisticated, having access to significantly more resources and time to facilitate their attacks, which in most cases are not financially driven (unlike typical cyber-criminals). For example, such threat actors often utilize a broad range of attack vectors, cyber and/or physical, and constantly evolve their attack tactics. Thus, having up-to-date and detailed information of APT's tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) facilitates the design of effective defense strategies as the focus of this paper. Specifically, we posit the importance of taxonomies in categorizing cyber-attacks. Note, however, that existing information about APT attack campaigns is fragmented across practitioner, government (including intelligence/classified), and academic publications, and existing taxonomies generally have a narrow scope (e.g., to a limited number of APT campaigns). Therefore, in this paper, we leverage the Cyber Kill Chain (CKC) model to "decompose" any complex attack and identify the relevant characteristics of such attacks. We then comprehensively analyze more than 40 APT campaigns disclosed before 2018 to build our taxonomy. Such taxonomy can facilitate incident response and cyber threat hunting by aiding in understanding of the potential attacks to organizations as well as which attacks may surface. In addition, the taxonomy can allow national security and intelligence agencies and businesses to share their analysis of ongoing, sensitive APT campaigns without the need to disclose detailed information about the campaigns. It can also notify future security policies and mitigation strategy formulation.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3606-3612
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• 1999

System(IDS) hasn't Protection capability for various security attacks perfectly. Because, It is probably affected by IDS's workload caused by treating all kind of the characteristics and attack patterns of system and can't probe all of the attack types being intelligently different with attack patterns. In this paper, we propose a new taxonomy criteria about DoS(denial of service attacks) to make more efficient and new real time probing system. It's started with an idea that most of the goal oriented systems make the state of system operation more unambiguous than general purpose system. A new event caused the state of the system operation to change and classifying a category of the new events may contribute to design the IDS.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1471-1492
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• 2015

The rapid development of smartphone technologies have resulted in the evolution of mobile botnets. The implications of botnets have inspired attention from the academia and the industry alike, which includes vendors, investors, hackers, and researcher community. Above all, the capability of botnets is uncovered through a wide range of malicious activities, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), theft of business information, remote access, online or click fraud, phishing, malware distribution, spam emails, and building mobile devices for the illegitimate exchange of information and materials. In this study, we investigate mobile botnet attacks by exploring attack vectors and subsequently present a well-defined thematic taxonomy. By identifying the significant parameters from the taxonomy, we compared the effects of existing mobile botnets on commercial platforms as well as open source mobile operating system platforms. The parameters for review include mobile botnet architecture, platform, target audience, vulnerabilities or loopholes, operational impact, and detection approaches. In relation to our findings, research challenges are then presented in this domain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.264-266
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• 2015

Currently as cyber threats grow up targeting nuclear power plants(NPP), licensees must guarantee that computer and information systems of nuclear facilities can be adequately protected against cyber attack. Especially critical system that cause illegal transfer of nuclear material and adverse impact to public safety need protecting. In this paper, we surveying the cyber threat examples targeted at NPP, and taxonomy the method of cyber security for NPPs in korea through analyzing the methodology to identify critical system and address cyber security controls for nuclear facilities.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.41-48
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• 2023

Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the damages caused by ransomware across various sectors of society, including individuals, businesses, and nations. Ransomware is a malicious software that infiltrates user computer systems, encrypts important files, and demands a ransom in exchange for restoring access to the files. Due to its diverse and sophisticated attack techniques, ransomware is more challenging to detect than other types of malware, and its impact is significant. Therefore, there is a critical need for accurate detection and mitigation methods. To achieve precise ransomware detection, an inference engine of a detection system must possess knowledge of ransomware features. In this paper, we propose a model to extract and classify the characteristics of ransomware for accurate detection of ransomware, calculate the similarity of the extracted characteristics, reduce the dimension of the characteristics, group the reduced characteristics, and classify the characteristics of ransomware into attack tools, inflow paths, installation files, command and control, executable files, acquisition rights, circumvention techniques, collected information, leakage techniques, and state changes of the target system. The classified characteristics were applied to the existing ransomware to prove the validity of the classification, and later, if the inference engine learned using this classification technique is installed in the detection system, most of the newly emerging and variant ransomware can be detected.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.791-794
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• 2006

컴퓨터의 정상적인 활동을 방해하는 공격행위는 네트워크로 연결된 컴퓨터를 기반으로 하는 사회 활동이 증가함에 따라 심각한 문제를 유발하고 있다. 하지만 기존의 네트워크 및 시스템공격에 대한 분류기법은 주로 공격자 입장에서 연구되어서 피해를 입은 시스템이 사용하기에는 부족하였다. 그래서 피해시스템 입장에서 공격을 정확히 분류하고 탐지할 수 있는 분류기법을 개발하는 것은 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 공격 분류방식을 분석하여 문제점을 발견한 후, 공격 분류방식이 가져야할 요구사항을 도출한다. 공격 분류기법의 요구사항을 만족하면서, 피해 시스템의 관리자가 공격에 대한 대책수립에 도움이 되는 공격 분류기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 분류기법은 공격방식에 따라 확장이 가능하므로 복합적 공격을 보다 정확하게 분류할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.329-337
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• 2013

Cyber threats of the ICS(Industrial Control System) has been researched on the level to the threat to the network service as well as a specific system, even if the extent of damage was not intended. Although some range of "security" just include the protection of systems against the deliberate attacks of terrorists or cyber hackers, often more damage is done by carelessness, and equipment failures than by those deliberate attacks. This paper presented a taxonomy for classifying all abnormal behaviors of ICS, including deliberate attacks, inadvertent mistakes, equipment failures, and software problems. The classification criteria of ICS abnormal behaviors was selected to highlight commonalities and important features of deliberate attacks as well as inadvertent actions.