How to Identify Cyber Threats Before They Strike

To ensure the cyber security of corporate infrastructures, it’s important to establish a complex approach to creating a defense strategy. Proactive action against dangerous malware is an essential part of this process. Namely, you need to identify cyber threats before they strike using threat intelligence.

TI to the rescue

Threat intelligence is an integral part of a powerful defense strategy. Learning about emerging threats and taking preventive action is one of the key components of building a strong safeguard against cybercriminals. Solutions like ANY.RUN’s TI Lookup help security teams prepare for potential attacks and protect their infrastructure.

To deploy threat intelligence in your company, you need a service that covers two primary requirements for TI tools:

• An abundant data source containing detailed info on up-to-date threats.
• An instrument for browsing this data and making conclusions that benefit your defense system.

TI Lookup not only fulfills them but also stands out among the solutions for threat intelligence available on the market. It’s a searchable database enriched with a continuous flow of information on threats. The data comes from ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox for malware analysis. Unlike most competitors, it shares not only IOCs, but also IOAs, IOBs, and TTPs.

Over 500,000 security professionals from all over the world contribute to it, and around 15,000 companies use the sandbox to enhance their protection from cyber threats.

As SOC teams investigate incidents and check files and URLs for potential malicious activities, the insights gained in the process are collected and submitted to Threat Intelligence Lookup.

This means that:

• A lot of the data in question is unique and can’t be found elsewhere.
• It covers the most recent attacks, including ongoing ones.
• Professionals constantly submit new samples, updating the databases.

Always stay informed

Threat intelligence helps detect and prevent attacks by keeping you informed on occurring issues, enhancing the efficacy of the workflow, and mitigating financial and reputational risks for your business.

With TI Lookup’s Search Updates feature you can subscribe to specific queries and receive updates on any activity that matters to your organization. Monitor emerging and evolving threats and be aware of cyber threats before they strike your system to stay ahead of the game.

The search allows for compound queries with over 40 parameters, making it easy to find what you’re looking for and learn all about its connections with other artefacts.

Let’s say you’re interested in a particular type of threat that targets a certain location. For example, you’d like to check for updates on email-distributed stealers in Colombia. You can do that with this query:

submissionCountry:”co” AND threatName:”stealer” AND filePath:”.eml” OR filePath:”.msg”

As a result, you’ll receive a list of all events and sandbox reports that fit the description. For further analysis of one of the recent samples, go to the sandbox by clicking on the corresponding task.

On average, this query gets several updates every week. To track them, you can subscribe to the query by clicking the bell symbol in the top right corner. Now you’ll be notified about all the upcoming samples that match the request, and they will be displayed in your dashboard highlighted in green.

Take proactive action

You can strengthen your organization’s security by making use of brand-new data on current attacks. Thanks to it, you can figure out how to enhance the detection rules and enable a better defense strategy.

Tools like TI Lookup help navigate overwhelming amounts of data in a fast and efficient way. It takes seconds to get in-depth information on threats and their context. With it, you can perform:

• Proactive Threat Identification: Search the database to proactively identify and update your defense based on the discovered intelligence.
• Faster Research: Accelerate threat research by quickly connecting isolated IOCs to specific threats or known malware campaigns.
• Real-Time Monitoring: Monitor evolving threats by receiving updates on new results related to your indicators of interest.
• Incident Forensics: Enhance forensic analysis of security incidents by searching for contextual information on existing artifacts.
• IOC, IOB, and IOA Collection: Discover additional indicators by searching the database for relevant threat information.

Make most of threat intelligence data to help your organization build a strong protection against evolving risks.

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