Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence turns raw signals into useful context about adversaries. This shelf covers threat actor types, the ransomware ecosystem, vulnerability lifecycles, and how to make IOCs actually useful for your security operations.
About this shelf
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is the discipline of turning raw signals into context that makes defenders better. Done well, CTI tells you who is targeting your sector, what they typically do, what indicators are worth watching, and which vulnerabilities in your environment are being actively exploited in the wild. Done badly, it produces a fire-hose of low-confidence IOCs that drown SOC analysts and never connect to a defensive action.
Articles in this shelf cover the actor side and the technical side. On the actor side: the taxonomy of threat actors (nation-state, financially motivated, hacktivist, insider), the structure of the ransomware ecosystem and Ransomware-as-a-Service economics, initial access brokers as a specialised criminal layer, and the AI/LLM-specific threats that have emerged as adversaries adopt large language models for phishing, code generation, and reconnaissance. On the technical side: the lifecycle of vulnerabilities from disclosure through KEV and EPSS to active exploitation, what makes an IOC actually useful, and how MITRE ATT&CK works as a common language across detection, intelligence, and adversary emulation.
The orientation throughout is practical. Threat intelligence is only valuable if it changes a decision — a patching priority, a detection engineering choice, a threat hunt hypothesis, an executive briefing. Articles are written with that test in mind, and references to source frameworks (MITRE, FIRST, CISA) are explicit so you can dig further when needed.
Articles in this shelf4 articles
AI and LLM Security Risks
How large language models create new categories of security risk including prompt injection, training data poisoning, deepfake fraud, and shadow AI use, and what realistic AI security looks like in 2026.
9 min read · Updated 2026-04-26Initial Access Brokers
How initial access brokers operate as a specialised criminal layer feeding ransomware affiliates, what they sell, where they sell it, and what their activity reveals about your exposure.
8 min read · Updated 2026-04-26Threat Actors Explained
A practical guide to who attackers actually are, why they attack, and what attribution can and cannot tell you.
8 min read · Updated 2026-04-26Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
What zero-days actually are, how they differ from N-days, why most attacks still use known CVEs, and how the zero-day market and CISA KEV catalogue have changed defender priorities.
8 min read · Updated 2026-04-26