ADVERSARIAL BEHAVIOURS KNOWLEDGE AREA Issue 1.0 AUTHOR: Gianluca Stringhini – Boston University EDITOR: Awais Rashid – University of Bristol REVIEWERS: Tom Holt – Michigan State University Adam Joinson – University of Bath Damon McCoy – New York University Paul Taylor – Lancaster University © Crown Copyright, The National Cyber Security Centre 2019. This information is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ When you use this information under the Open Government Licence, you should include the following attribution: CyBOK Adversarial Behaviours Knowledge Area Issue 1.0 © Crown Copyright, The National Cyber Security Centre 2019, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/. The CyBOK project would like to understand how the CyBOK is being used and its uptake. The project would like organisations using, or intending to use, CyBOK for the purposes of education, training, course development, professional development etc. to contact it at
[email protected] to let the project know how they are using CyBOK. Issue 1.0 is a stable public release of the Adversarial Behaviours Knowledge Area. However, it should be noted that a fully collated CyBOK document which includes all the Knowledge Areas is anticipated to be released by the end of July 2019. This will likely include updated page layout and formatting of the individual Knowledge Areas. Adversarial Behaviours KA Gianluca Stringhini July 2019 INTRODUCTION The technological advancements witnessed by our society in recent decades have brought improve- ments in our quality of life, but they have also created a number of opportunities for attackers to cause harm.