Cyber Intelligence and Social Media Analytics: Current Research Trends and Challenges

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are a rich source of data for Cyber Security and Cyber Intelligence applications, as they can reveal valuable insights into users’ behaviors, preferences, and opinions. Analyzing OSN data poses significant challenges, such as dealing with misinformation campaigns, protecting users’ privacy, and extracting relevant information from large and heterogeneous datasets. The Cyber Intelligence (CI) unit of the IIT-CNR has been conducting cutting-edge research on these topics, using state-of-the-art techniques from artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. In this paper, we present some of the main activities of the CI group and the technologies we have developed and applied to various CI areas. In addition, we present our involvement in projects that leverage artificial intelligence technologies for the development and implementation of Cyber Security techniques and systems based on social media and online social networks.