Malicious relay and jump-system detection using behavioral indicators of actors

Disclosed is an improved method, system, and computer program product for detecting hosts and connections between hosts that are being used as relays by an actor to gain control of hosts in a network. It can further identify periods of time within the connection when the relay activities occurred. I...

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Hauptverfasser: Beauchesne, Nicolas, Mhatre, Himanshu
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed is an improved method, system, and computer program product for detecting hosts and connections between hosts that are being used as relays by an actor to gain control of hosts in a network. It can further identify periods of time within the connection when the relay activities occurred. In some embodiments, the invention can also chain successive relays to identify the true source and true target of the relay.