Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Threat Intelligence for Targets of Coordinated Harassment

由一群个人和团体进行的协调在线骚扰是现代互联网的一个祸害。它颠覆了生命，牺牲了生命，压制了声音，使我们的公共话语更加残酷，更不具有代表性。这一现象给那些寻求公平、安全和值得信赖的互联网的人带来了挑战，以减少协调攻击的威胁，并迅速有效地处理攻击。该项目利用研究小组过去在帮助亲密伴侣暴力受害者方面有用的临床模式方面的经验，以及对如何处理协同骚扰以减少伤害并向骚扰目标提供积极援助的新认识，试点了一个咨询诊所。为了确保这项工作具有实际的、真实的世界影响力，该项目还在开发材料，并与帮助在线骚扰目标的平台、威胁情报公司和非营利组织合作。该项目使用一套全面的技术和以人为本的方法，以提高我们对协调骚扰威胁和缓解技术的理解。骚扰的协调使骚扰者能够扩大攻击规模，但也为维权者提供了监视攻击者的机会。该项目将研究如何使用威胁情报（一个新兴的网络安全领域，可以阻止，检测和修复网络攻击）来监控协调骚扰和doxing活动发生的渠道，了解升级过程，识别痛点，并优先考虑平台，执法部门和目标个人的行动方案。多学科团队和混合方法的方法将使该项目不仅能够构建复杂的工具，而且还能够构建多个领域的科学知识，并了解拟议的工具是否以及如何为复杂的社会问题提供解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Coordinated online harassment by collections of individuals and groups is a scourge of the modern Internet. It has upended and cost lives, silenced voices, and is making our public discourse more cruel and less representative. The phenomenon creates challenges for those who seek an equitable, secure and trustworthy internet to reduce the threat of coordinated attacks and handle attacks swiftly and effectively. Using the research team's past experiences with a clinical model that has been useful in helping victims of intimate partner violence, and new understandings of how to handle coordinated harassment to reduce harms and provide active assistance to targets of harassment, this project pilots an advice clinic. To ensure that the work has practical, real world impact, the project is also developing materials and working with platforms, threat intelligence companies, and non-profit organizations that help targets of online harassment .The project uses a comprehensive set of technical and human-centered methods to advance our understanding of coordinated harassment threats and mitigation techniques. The coordination of harassment allows harassers to scale their attacks, but also provides defenders with an opportunity to monitor attackers. This project will study how threat intelligence---an emerging area of cybersecurity that has enabled the blocking, detecting, and remediation of cyberattacks---can be used to monitor channels where coordinated harassment and doxing campaigns happen, understand escalation processes, identify pain points, and prioritize courses of action for platforms, law enforcement, and targeted individuals. The multidisciplinary team and mixed methods approach will enable the project to not only build sophisticated tools, but also build scientific knowledge in multiple fields and to understand whether and how the proposed tools can contribute solutions to a complex societal problem.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.