Password / Credential: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An exposed credential is a defensive workload, not an offensive opportunity. The only question worth asking is which of your...
File Hash
Data Breach: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A breach is not a single event, it is a dataset with a life of its own. The incident ends...
Onion / Hidden Service: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An onion address is a public key, not a location. Everything you can learn about a hidden service comes from...
File / Document: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every file carries more than its content. The container, the metadata and the structure record how it was made and...
Malware Family: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A malware family name is an analytical claim, not a fact stamped on the binary. It is the most useful...
SSL/TLS Certificate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Adversaries change domains and IPs constantly. They reuse certificate configuration because it is tedious not to. That asymmetry makes the...
CVE / Vulnerability: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A CVE identifier is a label for a flaw, not a measure of your risk. Treating the two as the...
File Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A file hash is the cheapest reliable fact in cyber threat intelligence: fixed length, unambiguous, and either it matches or...
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Signals intelligence is a state function with a warrant behind it. For everyone else, the discipline still matters, because you...
Vulnerability Intelligence (VULNINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
There are more vulnerabilities than you will ever patch. Vulnerability intelligence exists to tell you which few hundred actually matter...
Threat Actor Intelligence (ACTORINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Infrastructure changes weekly and tooling changes quarterly, but habits almost never change. Actor intelligence is the discipline of tracking what...
Malware Intelligence (MALINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A malware sample is a confession. It documents what its author wanted, how they build software, and where they expect...
Domain Intelligence (DOMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Domains are the cheapest and most disposable part of an attack, and the most revealing. Registration and DNS leave a...
Dark Web Intelligence (DARKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The dark web is not a place, it is an access-control problem. Most of what matters happens in venues no...
Cyber Intelligence (CYBINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Cyber intelligence is what turns telemetry into a story about an adversary. Without it you have logs. With it you...
Certificate Intelligence (CERTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every publicly trusted TLS certificate is logged in public within seconds of issuance. That log is one of the richest...
Child Protection: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The pattern that ends most sextortion cases is depressingly consistent: contact within hours, escalation within a day, and a payment...
Malware: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A hash tells you a file was seen. A configuration extraction tells you the campaign identifier, the operator's infrastructure and,...
Ransomware: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A leak site countdown is a negotiating instrument, not a report. Half the value of ransomware intelligence lies in knowing...
APT / Espionage: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The median intrusion that matters is not loud. It is a valid credential, a legitimate administrative tool and eleven months...
Nation State: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
State activity rarely arrives labelled. It surfaces as a procurement order routed through a third-country freight forwarder, a research institute...
