The author describes the Worminator project (http://worminator.cs.columbia.edu), a collaboration of academic institutions pursuing R&D of intelligent predictive and proactive technologies that detect, report, and defend against early preattack cyberevents--specifically network observables--that are precursors to malicious activities during a later attack stage.
Index Terms:
worminator, stealth, scan, probe, cyberattack
Citation:
Salvatore J. Stolfo, "Worm and Attack Early Warning," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 73-75, May 2004, doi:10.1109/MSP.2004.28