Cyber Reconnaissance Techniques

Authors:

• Wojciech Mazurczyk,
• Luca Caviglione

Abstract

Almost every day, security firms and mass media report news about successful cyber attacks, which are growing in terms of complexity and volume. According to Industry Week, in 2018 spear-phishing and spoofing attempts of business emails increased of 70% and 250%, respectively, and ransomware campaigns targeting enterprises had an impressive 350% growth.19 In general, economic damages are relevant, as there is the need of detecting and investigating the attack as well as restoring the compromised hardware and software.15 To give an idea of the impact of the problem, the average cost of a data breach has risen ....