Countering Daesh Cognitive and Cyber Warfare with OSINT and Basic Data Mining Tools
Countering Daesh Cognitive and Cyber Warfare with OSINT and Basic Data Mining Tools

Author(s): Gianluigi ME, Maria Felicita MUCCI
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Economy, Security and defense, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Asociatia Romana pentru Asigurarea Securitatii Informatiei
Keywords: clustering analysis; cognitive warfare; counterterrorism; Daesh; national security; virtual jihad;
Summary/Abstract: Digital civilization has changed war circumstances. Emerging dangers have asymmetry, variety, and continual change; quick transmission through the network; near-immediacy; possibility for unrestricted access; and swift power to affect people’s behavior. Cognitive Warfare, an international relations issue, uses information, cyber, and psychological warfare tactics. Daesh sends threatening messages to Western countries and spreads internet propaganda to recruit new members and induce terror. The study attempts to propose a novel knowledge-based approach for detecting terrorists by examining data obtained from Twitter and leading Daesh publications, through Data Mining techniques.

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