Paste / Leak Post: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The paste is usually the first time stolen data touches the open internet, and often the only time before it...
Threat Actor Intelligence
Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Keyword / Narrative: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
Detection Signature: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A detection signature is intelligence written in executable form. Read as a document, it tells you exactly what its author...
Messaging Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
Video: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A video is not evidence of what its caption claims. It is a container of measurable facts, and those facts...
Image / Photograph: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every photograph makes two claims: this is what it shows, and this is where and when it was taken. Both...
License Plate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A plate identifies a registration, not a person and not permanently a vehicle. It is the most privacy-loaded identifier most...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
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...
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...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Username / Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
People change platforms, phones and email providers. They almost never change the handle they picked at fifteen. That inertia is...
Email Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An email address is an account key, a routing instruction and a reputation record in one string. It is also...
TLS / JA3 Fingerprint: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Encryption hides the payload, not the handshake. The way a client says hello is often enough to name the software...
URL: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A URL is the only artifact that carries the attacker instruction set in plain sight. Parse it properly and it...
IP Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An IP address tells you where traffic went, not who sent it. Treat it as a lead on infrastructure, never...
