MITRE Unveils AADAPT Framework to Tackle Cryptocurrency Threats
securityweek.com - The MITRE AADAPT framework provides documentation for identifying, investigating, and responding to weaknesses in digital asset payments. The non-profit MITRE Corporation on Monday released Adversarial Actions in Digital Asset Payment Technologies (AADAPT), a cybersecurity framework designed to help the industry tackle weaknesses in cryptocurrency and other digital financial systems. Modeled after the MITRE ATT&CK framework, AADAPT delivers a structured methodology that developers, financial organizations, and policymakers can use to find, investigate, and address risks in digital asset payments. Insights that more than 150 sources from academia, government, and industry provided on real-world attacks on digital currencies and related technologies were used to create a playbook of adversarial TTPs linked to digital asset payment technologies. The increased use of cryptocurrency has led to the emergence of sophisticated threats, such as phishing schemes, ransomware campaigns, and double-spending attacks, often with severe impact on organizations that lack cybersecurity resources, such as local governments and municipalities. AADAPT is meant to help them enhance their stance through practical guidance and tools that specifically cover this financial market segment. According to MITRE, AADAPT was founded on an in-depth review of underlying technologies such as smart contracts, distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems, consensus algorithms, and quantum computing, along with vulnerabilities and credible attack methods. The tool supports critical use cases to help develop analytics for emulating threats, create detection techniques, compare insights, and assess security capabilities to prioritize decisions, essentially assisting stakeholders in adopting best practices. “Digital payment assets like cryptocurrency are set to transform the future of global finance, but their security challenges cannot be ignored. With AADAPT, MITRE is empowering stakeholders to adopt robust security measures that not only safeguard their assets but also build trust across the ecosystem,” MITRE VP Wen Masters said.
