The World Economic Forum wants to draw a global map of cybercrime TechRadar Skip to main content TechRadar is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. The World Economic Forum wants to draw a global map of cybercrime By Sead Fadilpašić published 13 June 2022 Probing the cyber underworld will help spot threats, says WEF (Image credit: stock.adobe.com © Artem #257128047) Audio player loading… The World Economic Forum (WEF), together with a few tech heavy-hitters, wants to map out the entire cybercrime ecosystem. The goal of the project, revealed at the recent RSA security conference, is to better understand who is who in the cybercrime world, who is friends with whom, who outsources which parts of the cyberattacking effort to whom, who builds, and who uses what tools and software. With this information, it was said, attribution will become easier which, in turn, will make issuing warrants, arrests, and asset seizures, a lot easier. By mapping out the entire cybercrime world, the companies believe they'll make cyberspace a safer environment for everyone. (opens in new tab) Share your thoughts on Cybersecurity and get a free copy of the Hacker's Manual 2022 (opens in new tab). Help us find how businesses are preparing for the post-Covid world and the implications of these activities on their cybersecurity plans. Enter your email at the end of this survey (opens in new tab) to get the bookazine, worth $10.99/£10.99. Open-source data The project is called The Atlas Initiative, and besides WEF, other contributors include Fortinet, CTA, and Microsoft. "This isn't a threat feed," said Derek Manky, chief security strategist at FortiGuard Labs, during an RSA Conference panel about the project. "We're looking at the non-traditional artifacts. Think: crypto addresses and bank accounts, phone numbers, emails, things that ultimately help to build the challenge of attribution, which we always say is the holy grail." As they build out Project Atlas, all the data used will be open-source. The companies will not only look at technical indicators of compromise, antivirus (opens in new tab) or firewall (opens in new tab) data, but also on things like social media accounts, indictments and other court documents, blogs, and pretty much any other non-proprietary info out there.Read more> Conti ransomware group officially shuts down - but probably not for long (opens in new tab) > Microsoft detects new Evil Corp malware attacks (opens in new tab) > DarkSide hacking group apparently shuts down following pipeline attack (opens in new tab) "One of the problems we frequently bump up against when we're talking about sharing information is: Is it proprietary from the private sector? Is it a work product such that they don't necessarily want to share? Is it classified information from governments? But that doesn't mean there isn't information that's available," said Amy Hogan-Burney, associate counsel and GM of Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit. For starters, the group will focus on 13 threat actors. While no names have been dropped, the media are speculating that TrickBot, Conti, Evil Corp, DarkSide, and the Lazarus Group, which have been infecting millions of endpoints (opens in new tab) for years now, will make the cut. Via: The Register (opens in new tab) Sead Fadilpašić Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he's written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He's also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications. See more Computing news Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to theTechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Thank you for signing up to TechRadar. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1The iPhone 14 Pro is made of the wrong stuff; the Pixel 7 proves that to me2Stop saying Mario doesn't have an accent in The Super Mario Bros. Movie3Google Pixel Tablet is what Apple should've done ages ago4RTX 4090 too expensive? Nvidia resurrects another old favorite5More than one million credit card details leaked online1The iPhone 14 Pro is made of the wrong stuff; the Pixel 7 proves that to me2iPhone 15 tipped to come with an upgraded 5G chip3If this feature succeeds for Modern Warfare 2, Microsoft can't ignore it4Apple October launches: the new devices we might see this month5The Rings of Power episode 8 trailer feels like one big Sauron misdirect Technology Magazines (opens in new tab)● (opens in new tab)The best tech tutorials and in-depth reviewsFrom$12.99 (opens in new tab)View (opens in new tab)