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UK CYBER AGENCY SIGNS ITS FIRST IETF RFC

By Richard Chirgwin

Nov 21 2023 11:38AM



DOCUMENTING INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE FOR THE INTERNET’S DESIGNERS.

England’s National Cyber Security Centre has taken an unusual step out of the
spotlight, authoring an Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comment
(IETF RFC) discussing indicators of compromise (IoCs) – symptoms that indicate a
corporate system has suffered a data breach.



RFCs are the foundation documents of the internet, in which the internet’s
protocols and technologies are described and standardised.

The NCSC’s “informational” document, RFC 9424, was adopted in August, and the
agency discusses its purpose in this blog post.



The aim of the post is to bring information familiar to security pros to the
attention of the people who are “involved in the IETF and designing the future
internet”, who may not be security experts.

“Standards bodies like the IETF are where the design decisions that will define
the internet of the future are made,” the post noted.



The agency says its introduction to indicators of compromise is designed to
describe the “observable artefacts associated with an attacker” – all the way
from the IP address that might host an attacker, up to the tools and techniques
an attacker or a campaign uses.

IoCs “can be things like domain names for phishing sites, IP addresses of
malware command and control servers, or cryptographic hashes of malicious
executables,” the NCSC’s author Andrew S explained.

“They provide a relatively simple way to detect malicious activity and tie it to
a specific actor, while also being very easy to share quickly between
organisations.”

The RFC offers a pyramid hierarchy of IoCs. 

At the top are the attackers “tactics, techniques and procedures”, which are the
most difficult for an attacker to change, but which offer relatively
low-precision IoCs (which phishing e-mail can be associated with which attacker,
for example).



At the bottom, IP addresses and malware hash values are very precise, but very
easy for the attacker to change.

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