All news with #threat intelligence tag

⚠️ Deutsche Telekom has introduced Call Check, an automated warning feature that flags incoming calls listed in a database as suspicious or fraudulent. When a call from a domestic or foreign number is identified, the recipient's smartphone displays a Caution, possible fraud! message to warn the user. The system is applied automatically to customers on the Telekom network and joins similar protections already deployed by competitors such as Vodafone, while O2 has yet to implement an equivalent service.

🔐 Check Point argues that modern AI's effectiveness hinges on the volume, variety, and freshness of data, and that its three decades of aggregated threat intelligence provide a practical advantage in applying AI to cybersecurity. The post highlights data density — the combination of scale, diversity, and timeliness of telemetry — as the primary driver of model accuracy and detection efficacy. It contrasts five years of explosive AI data growth with Check Point's 30-year corpus and explains how rich telemetry enables better prediction, prevention, and operationalization of AI-driven defenses.

🔗 The article argues that traditional threat feeds no longer suffice in modern, interconnected environments and proposes a Unified Linkage Model (ULM) to transform static indicators into dynamic threat flows. ULM defines three core linkage types — adjacency, inheritance and trustworthiness — to map how risk propagates across systems. It outlines practical steps to ingest and normalize feeds, establish and score linkages, integrate with MITRE ATT&CK and risk frameworks, and visualize attack pathways for prioritized response and compliance.

🔒 The UK's National Cyber Security Agency (NCSC) reports its Share and Defend service has blocked almost one billion attempts to access malicious websites in under a year. Launched in May 2024, the service aggregates threat intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) from partners and data sources, then shares them with ISPs such as BT, Vodafone, and TalkTalk for DNS filtering. When users try to follow phishing links, fraudulent texts or scam adverts, connections to known malicious domains are stopped automatically. The initiative supports the government's Stop! Think Fraud campaign and aims to reduce online fraud for consumers and businesses.

🛡 GreyNoise Labs provides a free online IP-check tool that helps users determine whether their home or family public IP has been observed performing malicious scanning or appears in GreyNoise's dataset. The GreyNoise IP Check returns one of three outcomes: clean, suspicious/malicious activity, or traffic consistent with VPN, corporate, or cloud environments, and shows a 90-day activity history when correlations exist. For advanced users, an unauthenticated, rate‑limit‑free JSON API accessible via curl supplies structured data for integration into MDMs, VPN scripts, or network onboarding.

🛡️ Modern SOCs drown in threat feeds; the problem is not data but converting it into repeatable decisions. The article lays out an operating model that makes CTI a business capability by centring work on Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs), engineering a single pipeline for collection, normalization and automated enrichment, and prioritizing behaviour‑first detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. It prescribes SOAR orchestration with human checkpoints, de‑duplication and scoring by relevance and visibility, and integration of intel into incident response and threat hunting. The result: measurable loss avoidance, reclaimed analyst capacity and executive reporting that drives concrete decisions.

🔎 An Amazon Integrated Security report describes Iran-linked actors conducting digital reconnaissance to enable real-world attacks, a phenomenon the company terms cyber-enabled kinetic targeting. Researchers attribute AIS and CCTV intrusions to Imperial Kitten (aka Tortoiseshell) between December 2021 and January 2024 that preceded a missile attempt on a commercial vessel. Amazon also links MuddyWater activity in mid-2025 to live camera access in Jerusalem and notes the use of anonymizing VPNs to complicate attribution and refine target selection.

🎯 Amazon’s threat intelligence linked Iran-associated APT activity to missile strikes in the Red Sea and Israel, concluding cyber espionage provided direct targeting intelligence. The group known as Imperial Kitten queried AIS ship-tracking data days before a Houthi missile attempt, while MuddyWater gained access to compromised CCTV streams ahead of strikes on Jerusalem. Amazon terms this trend cyber-enabled kinetic targeting and urges maritime, surveillance, and critical infrastructure operators to expand threat models and harden systems that could be repurposed for physical attacks.

🔎 Amazon Threat Intelligence reports a rising trend in which nation-state actors use cyber operations to collect real-time intelligence that directly supports physical attacks. The team calls this behavior cyber-enabled kinetic targeting, documenting campaigns that compromised AIS platforms, CCTV feeds, and enterprise systems. Amazon highlights multi-source telemetry and partner collaboration, urging defenders to expand threat models to address digital activities that enable kinetic outcomes.

🛡️ CISA, with NSA, DoD CyCC, FBI and international partners, released Bulletproof Defense: Mitigating Risks from Bulletproof Hosting Providers to help ISPs and network defenders disrupt abuse by bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers. The guide defines BPH as providers who knowingly lease infrastructure to cybercriminals and outlines practical measures — including curated malicious resource lists, targeted filters, traffic analysis, ASN/IP logging, and intelligence sharing — to reduce malicious activity while minimizing disruption to legitimate users.

🛡️ The US Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015) received a three-month extension in a Senate continuing resolution, preserving liability protections for voluntary threat sharing through the Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) program until January 30, 2026. Cyber professionals broadly welcomed the move but called it a "temporary patch" and urged a longer-term renewal. Industry sources reported the lapse since September reduced federal-to-private sharing, while a Binalyze survey highlighted operational strains, estimating an average cost of $114,000 per hour of delayed incident response.

🛡️ Fortinet and Crime Stoppers International (CSI) have launched the Cybercrime Bounty program, a global initiative enabling secure, anonymous reporting of cybercriminal activity. Validated reports will feed Fortinet’s threat intelligence to support law enforcement investigations and potential prosecutions. The program scales deterrence by combining community-sourced tips with expert analysis, building on decades of Fortinet collaboration with INTERPOL and other public-private partners.

🔍 This November VirusTotal is offering uncapped GUI searches for all Enterprise customers, allowing manual queries through the web interface without consuming quota. Take this opportunity to experiment with VirusTotal Intelligence search modifiers to pivot across hashes, domains, IPs, and URLs, hunt for related samples, and uncover campaign infrastructure. API interactions will continue to consume quota, while daily shared queries and community tips — tagged #MonthOfVTSearch — will help users explore advanced search techniques.

🏆 Fortinet received two 2025 Crime Stoppers International awards—the Cybersecurity Leadership Award and the Corporate Leadership in Crime Prevention Award—for its global efforts to disrupt cybercrime through intelligence sharing, partnership, and workforce development. FortiGuard Labs and the Fortinet Training Institute are cited for delivering actionable threat intelligence and scalable education. The honors validate more than a decade of sustained public‑private collaboration and data‑driven prevention.

🔎 Proton and Constella Intelligence have launched the Data Breach Observatory, a real‑time dark‑web monitoring service that has identified more than 300 million compromised records tied to 794 incidents so far this year. The service combines automated crawlers, curated feeds and human analysts to surface breached data and alert affected parties. Proton says small and medium businesses are heavily targeted, with email addresses, names and contact details the most commonly exposed items. If aggregated datasets are included, Proton reports incidents rise to 1,571 and exposures reach hundreds of billions of records.

🔎 Early detection turns cybersecurity from a reactive cost into a business enabler. Investing in continuous visibility, threat intelligence, and rapid detection reduces incident costs, preserves uptime, and protects revenue and reputation. Solutions such as ANY.RUN's Threat Intelligence Feeds and TI Lookup deliver real-time IOCs, context-enriched analyses, and STIX/TAXII-ready integrations so SOCs can prioritize and act faster, lowering MTTR and operational burden.

📡 The Resilience Risk Operations Center (ROC) reframes cyber defense by fusing technical, business and financial intelligence into a single operating environment. Rather than relying solely on a traditional SOC that reacts to alerts, the ROC prioritizes threats using actuarial and claims data to show potential financial impact and guide urgent decisions. Inspired by the US Air Force AOC, it co-locates multidisciplinary experts to anticipate attacks and accelerate response. Early use, including response to an April 2024 VPN zero-day, showed faster mitigation and reduced losses.

🔎 Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed coordinated pro-Russia information operations responding to reported Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace on Sept. 9–10, 2025. Actors amplified narratives denying Russian culpability, blaming NATO or Poland, and seeking to erode domestic and international support for Ukraine. GTIG documented activity across multiple networks and languages and noted these operations leveraged both long-standing and recently developed influence infrastructure.

🔒 Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reports that a DPRK-aligned threat actor tracked as UNC5342 has employed EtherHiding since February to host and deliver malware via smart contracts on Ethereum and the BNB Smart Chain. Campaigns begin with fake technical interviews that trick developers into running a JavaScript downloader named JADESNOW, which fetches a JavaScript build of InvisibleFerret for in-memory espionage and credential theft. The method offers anonymity, takedown resistance, and low-cost, stealthy payload updates.

🔎Citizen Lab reports a coordinated AI-enabled influence operation, dubbed PRISONBREAK, that used more than 50 inauthentic X profiles to push narratives aimed at inciting revolt within Iran. Created in 2023, the network became active mainly from January 2025 and produced bursts of activity synchronized with IDF operations in June 2025. Citizen Lab notes limited organic engagement, though some posts reached tens of thousands of views, and assesses the most consistent attribution is to an Israeli government agency or a closely supervised subcontractor.