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Threat Intelligence AI Actions help threat hunters plan effective huntsExtract insights and transform OSINT into intelligence with source citations15-sec summaryAI Actions helps teams transform multiple articles into actionable output by extracting insights or generating custom reports and executive summaries. In this post, we focus on using AI Actions to analyze threat actors and their behaviors.With AI Actions, you can synthesize multiple articles to:Extract threat actors and corresponding TTPs into tables to update threat actor profiles or plan potential attack simulations.Link threat actors to targeted industries to discover emerging threat actors or those beginning to focus on your industry.Distill technical malware analysis reports into insights to help identify malware variants, inform threat hunting, and establish containment practices.AI Actions help CTI analysts and threat hunters quickly synthesize content to understand the broader context of the cybersecurity landscape, create custom reports, and extract data to help them plan and conduct more effective threat hunts.AI Action shows the mentioned attack procedures related to Lockbit as well as a description, log sources, and the search pattern.Start Free TrialChallenges of analyzing threat actorsThe volume and complexity of data from various sources, including security articles, threat intelligence reports, and social media, can feel distressing. Are you missing important information? Are you relying on the wrong sources for your analyses? At the same time, integrating and correlating data from disparate sources to reveal common themes and draw meaningful conclusions is a complex and resource-intensive task.Your analysis is only getting more complicated as threat actors use generative AI to deliver new, more sophisticated attack techniques. Add to that the explosion in software vulnerabilities, which creates numerous opportunities for exploitation.You could turn to threat intelligence services, but they are expensive and often delayed due to the human analysis factor—if their research even covers the adversaries active in your industry.You need a better way of analyzing threat actors and the changes to their behaviors that reflect the latest available information.Extract threat actors and corresponding TTPs into tablesFeedly AI Feeds help you collect the most recent information about Threat Actors and their TTPs. With AI Actions, you can quickly synthesize multiple articles about threat actor behavior into actionable intelligence so you can update threat actor profiles, plan threat hunts, or simulate attack scenarios.In this example, we used an AI Feed to collect articles from the open web about Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for Russian threat actors. Within that feed, we can select up to 25 articles to use Feedly AI Actions to associate the mentioned threat actors with corresponding TTPs.AI Action shows threat actors, the MITRE tactic, and the ATT&CK technique used, as well as the emerging TTPs.Start Free TrialLink threat actors with targeted industriesThreat actors can shift their targets over time, and new adversary groups can begin to target your industry. Understanding which groups are actively targeting your industry helps you focus on the most relevant threats.Here, we’ve used an AI Feed to collect articles about cyber attacks and threat actors. We can then synthesize and analyze the articles we select (up to 25 at a time) to identify threat actors, the industries they are targeting, and the TTPs they are using.AI Action mapping threat actors, corresponding TTPs, and the targeted industry.Distill technical malware analysis reports into insightsThreat actors often utilize malware, including ransomware, to extract or encrypt data enabling them to demand financial payments. Threat hunters need to understand the malware and its variants used by adversaries in order to detect, contain, and establish preventive controls against malware attacks. However, malware analysis reports can be long and detailed, requiring tedious work to extract indicators, develop or update signatures, or understand file modifications used in variants.AI Actions can quickly extract the details from these reports into the format you need.AI Action summarizes the mentioned malware, their capabilities, and how they can be detected.ConclusionKeeping up with threat actors is a monumental task that is becoming harder as adversaries use AI to develop new tactics and techniques faster. As a CTI analyst or threat hunter, you need up-to-date threat actor profiles that reflect their current behaviors to help you better understand the threat landscape and plan effective threat hunts or simulations. AI Actions can take articles from your customized threat intelligence feeds and transform them into actionable outputs in minutes.Try AI ActionsEnhance your threat hunts and make your cybersecurity efforts more effective!START FREE TRIAL

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Threat Intelligence

AI Actions help threat hunters plan effective hunts

Extract insights and transform OSINT into intelligence with source citations

15-sec summary

AI Actions helps teams transform multiple articles into actionable output by extracting insights or generating custom reports and executive summaries. In this post, we focus on using AI Actions to analyze threat actors and their behaviors.

With AI Actions, you can synthesize multiple articles to:

Extract threat actors and corresponding TTPs into tables to update threat actor profiles or plan potential attack simulations.
Link threat actors to targeted industries to discover emerging threat actors or those beginning to focus on your industry.
Distill technical malware analysis reports into insights to help identify malware variants, inform threat hunting, and establish containment practices.

AI Actions help CTI analysts and threat hunters quickly synthesize content to understand the broader context of the cybersecurity landscape, create custom reports, and extract data to help them plan and conduct more effective threat hunts.

AI Action shows the mentioned attack procedures related to Lockbit as well as a description, log sources, and the search pattern.

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Challenges of analyzing threat actors

The volume and complexity of data from various sources, including security articles, threat intelligence reports, and social media, can feel distressing. Are you missing important information? Are you relying on the wrong sources for your analyses? At the same time, integrating and correlating data from disparate sources to reveal common themes and draw meaningful conclusions is a complex and resource-intensive task.

Your analysis is only getting more complicated as threat actors use generative AI to deliver new, more sophisticated attack techniques. Add to that the explosion in software vulnerabilities, which creates numerous opportunities for exploitation.

You could turn to threat intelligence services, but they are expensive and often delayed due to the human analysis factor—if their research even covers the adversaries active in your industry.

You need a better way of analyzing threat actors and the changes to their behaviors that reflect the latest available information.

Extract threat actors and corresponding TTPs into tables

Feedly AI Feeds help you collect the most recent information about Threat Actors and their TTPs. With AI Actions, you can quickly synthesize multiple articles about threat actor behavior into actionable intelligence so you can update threat actor profiles, plan threat hunts, or simulate attack scenarios.

In this example, we used an AI Feed to collect articles from the open web about Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for Russian threat actors. Within that feed, we can select up to 25 articles to use Feedly AI Actions to associate the mentioned threat actors with corresponding TTPs.

AI Action shows threat actors, the MITRE tactic, and the ATT&CK technique used, as well as the emerging TTPs.

Start Free Trial

Link threat actors with targeted industries

Threat actors can shift their targets over time, and new adversary groups can begin to target your industry. Understanding which groups are actively targeting your industry helps you focus on the most relevant threats.

Here, we’ve used an AI Feed to collect articles about cyber attacks and threat actors. We can then synthesize and analyze the articles we select (up to 25 at a time) to identify threat actors, the industries they are targeting, and the TTPs they are using.

AI Action mapping threat actors, corresponding TTPs, and the targeted industry.

Distill technical malware analysis reports into insights

Threat actors often utilize malware, including ransomware, to extract or encrypt data enabling them to demand financial payments. Threat hunters need to understand the malware and its variants used by adversaries in order to detect, contain, and establish preventive controls against malware attacks. However, malware analysis reports can be long and detailed, requiring tedious work to extract indicators, develop or update signatures, or understand file modifications used in variants.

AI Actions can quickly extract the details from these reports into the format you need.

AI Action summarizes the mentioned malware, their capabilities, and how they can be detected.

Conclusion

Keeping up with threat actors is a monumental task that is becoming harder as adversaries use AI to develop new tactics and techniques faster. As a CTI analyst or threat hunter, you need up-to-date threat actor profiles that reflect their current behaviors to help you better understand the threat landscape and plan effective threat hunts or simulations. AI Actions can take articles from your customized threat intelligence feeds and transform them into actionable outputs in minutes.