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| language: | |
| - en | |
| - zh | |
| - ru | |
| license: other | |
| license_name: hackersignal-mixed | |
| license_link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/BenAmpel/HackerSignal/blob/main/data/release/source_release_manifest.json | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 1M<n<10M | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-classification | |
| - text-retrieval | |
| tags: | |
| - cybersecurity | |
| - exploit | |
| - vulnerability | |
| - CVE | |
| - hacker-forum | |
| - threat-intelligence | |
| - NLP | |
| - benchmark | |
| pretty_name: HackerSignal | |
| dataset_info: | |
| splits: | |
| - name: full | |
| num_examples: 7447646 | |
| features: | |
| - name: unified_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_dataset | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_file | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_format | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_layer | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_record_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: forum_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: timestamp | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: author_hash | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_raw | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_length | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: text_raw_length | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: text_sha256 | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_raw_sha256 | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_url | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_title | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: section | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: post_index | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: post_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: scraped_at | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: reply_count | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: view_count | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: tags | |
| sequence: string | |
| - name: cve_refs | |
| sequence: string | |
| - name: dataset_generated_at | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: release_mode | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: released_artifact | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: redaction_reason | |
| dtype: string | |
| configs: | |
| - config_name: default | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: full | |
| path: unified_hacker_communities_neurips_public.jsonl | |
| features: | |
| - name: unified_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_dataset | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_file | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_format | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_layer | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_record_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: forum_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: timestamp | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: author_hash | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_raw | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_length | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: text_raw_length | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: text_sha256 | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_raw_sha256 | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_url | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_title | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: section | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: post_index | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: post_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: scraped_at | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: reply_count | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: view_count | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: tags | |
| sequence: string | |
| - name: cve_refs | |
| sequence: string | |
| - name: dataset_generated_at | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: release_mode | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: released_artifact | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: redaction_reason | |
| dtype: string | |
| - config_name: sample | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: full | |
| path: hackersignal_sample_10k.jsonl | |
| features: | |
| - name: unified_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_dataset | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_file | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_format | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_layer | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source_record_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: forum_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: timestamp | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: author_hash | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_raw | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_length | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: text_raw_length | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: text_sha256 | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text_raw_sha256 | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_url | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_title | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: section | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: post_index | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: post_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: thread_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: scraped_at | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: reply_count | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: view_count | |
| dtype: int64 | |
| - name: tags | |
| sequence: string | |
| - name: cve_refs | |
| sequence: string | |
| - name: dataset_generated_at | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: release_mode | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: released_artifact | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: redaction_reason | |
| dtype: string | |
| - config_name: task1_cve_linkage | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task1_cve_linkage/train.jsonl | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task1_cve_linkage/val.jsonl | |
| - split: test | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task1_cve_linkage/test.jsonl | |
| - split: corpus | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task1_cve_linkage/corpus.jsonl | |
| features: | |
| - name: id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: cve_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: timestamp | |
| dtype: string | |
| - config_name: task2_exploit_type | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task2_exploit_type/train.jsonl | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task2_exploit_type/val.jsonl | |
| - split: test | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task2_exploit_type/test.jsonl | |
| features: | |
| - name: id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: label | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: timestamp | |
| dtype: string | |
| - config_name: task3_temporal_generalization | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task3_temporal_generalization/train.jsonl | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task3_temporal_generalization/val.jsonl | |
| - split: test | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task3_temporal_generalization/test.jsonl | |
| - split: corpus | |
| path: benchmark_v2/task3_temporal_generalization/corpus.jsonl | |
| features: | |
| - name: id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: cve_id | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: source | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: timestamp | |
| dtype: string | |
| # HackerSignal | |
| A large-scale, multi-source dataset linking hacker community discourse, exploit databases, vulnerability advisories, and fix commits through a shared CVE identifier space. | |
| ## Overview | |
| | Statistic | Value | | |
| |-----------|-------| | |
| | Documents | 7,447,646 (exact-deduplicated) | | |
| | Sources | 64 public forum/source identifiers | | |
| | Source layers | 8 | | |
| | Temporal span | 1988--2026 | | |
| | CVE-linked rows | 360,004 | | |
| | Benchmark tasks | 3 | | |
| ## Quick Start | |
| ```python | |
| from datasets import load_dataset | |
| # Load the 10K stratified sample (24 MB) | |
| sample = load_dataset("BenAmpel/HackerSignal", "sample") | |
| # Load a benchmark task | |
| task1 = load_dataset("BenAmpel/HackerSignal", "task1_cve_linkage") | |
| # Load the full corpus (12 GB) | |
| full = load_dataset("BenAmpel/HackerSignal", "default") | |
| ``` | |
| ## Source Layers | |
| | Layer | Description | Rows | | |
| |-------|-------------|------| | |
| | `hacker_community` | Forum posts from hacker/security communities | 6,974,128 | | |
| | `exploit_archive` | Published exploit code and advisories | 197,393 | | |
| | `vulnerability_reference` | NVD CVE descriptions and structured advisories | 150,916 | | |
| | `exploit_qa_reference` | Security Q&A and tutorial content | 68,791 | | |
| | `advisory_reference` | Vendor and third-party security advisories | 30,361 | | |
| | `bug_bounty_disclosure` | Public bug bounty reports | 13,720 | | |
| | `fix_commit_reference` | Vulnerability fix commit messages | 11,104 | | |
| | `exploitation_reference` | Active exploitation indicators (CISA KEV) | 1,233 | | |
| ## Benchmark Tasks | |
| ### Task 1: CVE Linkage Retrieval (CVE-R) | |
| Cross-source temporally OOD entity grounding: given exploit/advisory evidence text, retrieve the correct NVD CVE entry from a corpus of 340K descriptions. Queries come from 22 source identifiers across exploit archives, advisories, fix commits, and bug bounty reports; filtered to ≥8 tokens. | |
| | Split | Rows | | |
| |-------|------| | |
| | Train | 56,692 | | |
| | Val | 2,584 | | |
| | Test | 1,990 | | |
| | Corpus | 340,536 | | |
| ### Task 2: Exploit Type Classification (ETC) | |
| 8-class temporal OOD classification of exploit posts by type: injection, XSS, memory corruption, DoS, file inclusion, authentication/access bypass, RCE, and information disclosure. Sourced from ExploitDB and HackerOne public reports; split by publication year so test posts postdate all training examples. | |
| | Split | Rows | | |
| |-------|------| | |
| | Train | 64,413 | | |
| | Val | 4,735 | | |
| | Test | 1,735 | | |
| ### Task 3: Temporal Generalization (TG) | |
| Identical retrieval formulation to Task 1 but with strict CVE-disjoint constraint: C_train ∩ C_test = ∅. Split by CVE publication year (train: <2022, test: 2024+) to test generalization to wholly unseen vulnerabilities. | |
| | Split | Rows | | |
| |-------|------| | |
| | Train | 56,833 | | |
| | Val | 2,535 | | |
| | Test | 1,898 | | |
| | Corpus | 340,536 | | |
| ## Schema | |
| Each record in the main corpus contains: | |
| | Field | Type | Description | | |
| |-------|------|-------------| | |
| | `unified_id` | string | Release identifier (truncated SHA-256 of provenance fields and the keyed author pseudonym) | | |
| | `source_dataset` | string | Input source file or dataset name | | |
| | `source_layer` | string | Normalized layer (see above) | | |
| | `text` | string | UTF-8 post/advisory text (max 8000 chars) | | |
| | `timestamp` | string | ISO 8601 publication datetime (UTC) | | |
| | `forum_id` | string | Source identifier | | |
| | `author_hash` | string | Keyed HMAC-SHA-256 author pseudonym (unpublished key, rotated across major versions) | | |
| | `release_mode` | string | Governance mode (see below) | | |
| ## Release Governance | |
| Records follow source-specific release modes: | |
| - **`redistributable_text`** (5 sources): Full text included under public-domain or CC licenses. | |
| - **`research_text_with_terms`** (9 sources): Text included with source attribution; no commercial reuse. | |
| - **`metadata_or_pointer_only`** (13 sources): Only metadata, timestamps, CVE refs, text hashes, and lengths; raw text withheld. | |
| See `docs/release_governance.md` for the full source matrix, takedown policy, and responsible-use restrictions. | |
| ## Responsible Use | |
| This dataset is intended for **defensive cybersecurity research** only. Prohibited uses include: | |
| - Training systems for automated exploit code generation or malware | |
| - De-anonymizing forum participants outside approved research protocols | |
| - Operational blocking or law-enforcement decisions based solely on model outputs | |
| - Republishing text from `metadata_or_pointer_only` sources | |
| ## Known Issues | |
| - **HuggingFace dataset viewer row count**: The viewer may display a partial count (~1M) for the `default/full` split because HF's streaming viewer cannot fully index files over ~10 GB. The actual row count is 7,447,646 as validated against the SHA-256 manifest. | |
| - **Content-scanner warnings**: HF's automated scanner flags several files (including the sample JSONL) as "Unsafe" due to exploit and vulnerability text. This is expected for a cybersecurity research dataset and does not indicate malicious content. See the Responsible Use section below. | |
| ## Limitations | |
| - English-language bias; non-English communities may be underrepresented | |
| - Historical forum imports skew toward 2015--2017 | |
| - Task labels are weak (CVE-linkage-derived), not human-annotated | |
| - ~8% near-duplicate content remains after exact deduplication | |
| - 1.57M rows under 8 tokens (useful for interaction analysis, not classification) | |
| ## Citation | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @inproceedings{ampel2026hackersignal, | |
| title = {{HackerSignal}: A Multi-Source, {CVE}-Linked Corpus and Prospective Benchmark | |
| for Cyber Threat Intelligence}, | |
| author = {Ampel, Benjamin M. and Samtani, Sagar}, | |
| booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), | |
| Evaluations and Datasets Track}, | |
| year = {2026}, | |
| eprint = {2605.03158}, | |
| archivePrefix = {arXiv}, | |
| primaryClass = {cs.CR}, | |
| url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03158} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| Paper: [arXiv:2605.03158](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03158) · Code: [github.com/BenAmpel/hackersignal](https://github.com/BenAmpel/hackersignal) | |
| ## License | |
| Mixed. Code and metadata: CC BY 4.0. Source text keeps its source's terms, listed per source in `data/release/source_release_manifest.json`: US government public domain (NVD, CISA KEV), CC BY 4.0 (CVEfixes, GitHub Advisory), CC BY-SA 4.0 (ExploitDB-derived records), and dataset-specific or site terms for the rest. Where a source's terms conflict with this tag, the per-source terms govern. | |
| Author pseudonyms changed in version 1.0.0 (keyed HMAC-SHA-256). `author_hash` and `unified_id` values from earlier revisions do not match this release. | |