Publications

Authors:

• Ericsson Marin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Mohammed Almukaynizi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
• Soumajyoti Sarkar, Arizona State University
• Eric Nunes, Arizona State University
• Jana Shakarian, Cyber Reconnaissance, Inc.
• Paulo Shakarian, Cyber Reconnaissance, Inc.

Table of Contents:

Foreword Edward G. Amoroso
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Background
Part I. Understanding the Behavior of Malicious Hackers:
3. Mining key-hackers
4. Reasoning about hacker engagement
5. Uncovering communities of malware and exploit vendors
Part II. Predicting Imminent Cyber Threats:
6. Identifying exploits in the wild proactively
7. Predicting enterprise-targeted external cyber-attacks
8. Bringing social network analysis to aid in cyber-attack prediction
9. Finding at-risk systems without software vulnerability identifiers (CVE's)
10. Final considerations.

•  Marin E, Almukaynizi M, Sarkar S, Nunes E, Shakarian J, Shakarian P. Exploring Malicious Hacker Communities: Toward Proactive Cyber-Defense. Cambridge University Press; 2021. Link.

Conferences

• W. H. Kwan, L. K. Takahashi, N. Pham, A. Sista and E. Marin, "You May Not Be Your Username: Cross-Market Vendor Alias Attribution with Automatic Multi-Signal Evaluation," 2025 IEEE 24th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Guiyang, China, 2025, pp. 1119-1126. Link.
• Kwan, W., Takahashi, L., Sista, A., Tran, M., Pham, N., Lee, V., Wang, S., Marin, E. "DMDb: Uncovering Criminal Hacking on the Dark Web to Enhance Cyber-Threat Intelligence Research," 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2025), Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2025. Link.