Towards a taxonomy of cyber threats against target applications

Abstract

As the adoption of ubiquitous computing is growing with rapid pace, its security is becoming a major concern due to nimble and creative cyber attackers. The evolving threats are continuously challenging and reminding security professionals as well as corporations to come up with interconnected and integrated approach to security. In this paper, Taxonomy of Cyber Threats is prepared in terms of Industrial, OS, Mobile OS, Web Browser, Network and Social Network applications which will assist Information Security bodies such as CERT in describing and categorizing the attacks consistently. The proposed taxonomy consists of eight aspects which effectively comprehends the taxonomy in order to deal with the intrinsic issues in different target sectors. For better manifestation, the taxonomy is applied to some well known cyber threats. Finally, an analysis of Cyber Threats is conducted for that Symantec Threat database is used and some important findings are presented.

Keywords:

• Aspects
• Attack Target
• Cyber Threat
• Cyber Attack
• Taxonomy