Project Goals
The main objective of HOPLITE is to build on previous EU funded project results to provide Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and Judicial Agencies (JAs) with an intuitive platform for launching Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) campaigns, receiving threshold-level incident alerts, and facilitating the exchange of threat intelligence with trusted partners, and therefore, greatly assist law enforcement in the fight to combat a range of illegal activities, either perpetrated or coordinated online.
The project will build on results from several EU funded initiatives while at the same time add value to existing results through technical development. The solution will be based on Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP) and the Analysis Information Leak (AIL), which were developed under the Connecting Europe Facility, Telecom Grants 2014-2020.
The project results will include enhanced versions of MISP and AIL, which are complemented by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools from open-source solutions and EU-funded projects such as INSPECTr and complementary outputs from the FREETOOL project, which are all freely available to EU public entities fighting cybercrime. Through development and adaptation of tools to analyse data sources desired outcomes of this project will be:
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Enhancement of the workflow between data gathering from AIL and reporting of actionable intelligence on platforms such as MISP.
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Provision of actionable intelligence in near real-time for law enforcement analysts, investigators, and Judicial Authorities, through deployment and development of new AIL components and AI and non-AI analysers.
Providing:
- A reduction in the volume of media that an analyst will be required to manually process, when presented with alerts about AIL keyword hits on targeted input streams.
- An enhanced AIL able to identify threats within media, such as images, videos, and audio files. The quality of alerts will be improved, and false positives and missing alerts reduced.
Although this project aims to initially directly serve the requirements of law enforcement there is already a thriving community of MISP users, and enhancements to AIL would be of benefit to most users. Additional welcome outcomes of the HOPLITE project would be (i) an increase in cyber threat reporting between the private sector and law enforcement and (ii) an increased adoption of MISP by LEAs.