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| author | Huang, Shuo Jones, Fred Gurney, Nikolos Pynadath, David Srivastava, Kunal Trent, Stoney Wu, Peggy Zhu, Quanyan |
| author_facet | Huang, Shuo Jones, Fred Gurney, Nikolos Pynadath, David Srivastava, Kunal Trent, Stoney Wu, Peggy Zhu, Quanyan |
| contents | Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) bring significant challenges to cybersecurity due to their sophisticated and stealthy nature. Traditional cybersecurity measures fail to defend against APTs. Cognitive vulnerabilities can significantly influence attackers' decision-making processes, which presents an opportunity for defenders to exploit. This work introduces PsybORG$^+$, a multi-agent cybersecurity simulation environment designed to model APT behaviors influenced by cognitive vulnerabilities. A classification model is built for cognitive vulnerability inference and a simulator is designed for synthetic data generation. Results show that PsybORG$^+$ can effectively model APT attackers with different loss aversion and confirmation bias levels. The classification model has at least a 0.83 accuracy rate in predicting cognitive vulnerabilities. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | PsybORG+: Modeling and Simulation for Detecting Cognitive Biases in Advanced Persistent Threats Huang, Shuo Jones, Fred Gurney, Nikolos Pynadath, David Srivastava, Kunal Trent, Stoney Wu, Peggy Zhu, Quanyan Cryptography and Security Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) bring significant challenges to cybersecurity due to their sophisticated and stealthy nature. Traditional cybersecurity measures fail to defend against APTs. Cognitive vulnerabilities can significantly influence attackers' decision-making processes, which presents an opportunity for defenders to exploit. This work introduces PsybORG$^+$, a multi-agent cybersecurity simulation environment designed to model APT behaviors influenced by cognitive vulnerabilities. A classification model is built for cognitive vulnerability inference and a simulator is designed for synthetic data generation. Results show that PsybORG$^+$ can effectively model APT attackers with different loss aversion and confirmation bias levels. The classification model has at least a 0.83 accuracy rate in predicting cognitive vulnerabilities. |
| title | PsybORG+: Modeling and Simulation for Detecting Cognitive Biases in Advanced Persistent Threats |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01310 |