Network Intelligence: Your Questions, Global Answers

This article serves as a product overview for Recorded Future's network intelligence platform rather than a specific threat report. The piece outlines how global network visibility—spanning 150+ sensors across 35+ countries processing billions of packets—enables security teams to conduct active threat investigations using their own selectors. Key capabilities described include faster SOC triage through instant querying of global communication patterns, distinguishing between targeted and opportunistic campaigns, exposing fraud infrastructure behind credential stuffing and payment fraud, and improving attribution through longitudinal visibility of adversary infrastructure evolution. The platform integrates with SIEM and SOAR tools via API. While the article references research into 500+ malware families and threat actors, it does not name specific actors, malware families, or detail any active campaigns. This is promotional content describing tooling capabilities rather than threat intelligence on specific threats.

Learn how network intelligence gives security teams control over threat investigation with global visibility—no more drowning in generic, passive threat feeds.

This article serves as a product overview for Recorded Future's network intelligence platform rather than a specific threat report. The piece outlines how global network visibility—spanning 150+ sensors across 35+ countries processing billions of packets—enables security teams to conduct active threat investigations using their own selectors. Key capabilities described include faster SOC triage through instant querying of global communication patterns, distinguishing between targeted and opportunistic campaigns, exposing fraud infrastructure behind credential stuffing and payment fraud, and improving attribution through longitudinal visibility of adversary infrastructure evolution. The platform integrates with SIEM and SOAR tools via API. While the article references research into 500+ malware families and threat actors, it does not name specific actors, malware families, or detail any active campaigns. This is promotional content describing tooling capabilities rather than threat intelligence on specific threats. Learn how network intelligence gives security teams control over threat investigation with global visibility—no more drowning in generic, passive threat feeds. The Problem with Pre-Packaged Intelligence Security teams are drowning in threat intelligence feeds. Hundreds of vendors promise comprehensive coverage, real-time alerts, and actionable insights. Yet sophisticated adversaries continue to operate undetected, incidents take weeks to scope, and attribution remains elusive. The fundamental issue isn't quality but control. Traditional network visibility solutions force passive consumption: their alerts, their priorities, their timeline. This one-size-fits-all approach assumes threats targeting financial services match those facing critical infrastructure, or that yesterday's patterns predict tomorrow's campaigns. Network intelligence flips this model. With global visibility spanning billions of connections across 150+ sensors in 35+ countries, you can investigate what matters to your organization using your own selectors, questions, and mission requirements. What Network Intelligence Actually Means Effective network intelligence requires global visibility at scale: distributed sensors across dozens of countries processing billions of packets daily, generating tens of millions of network flow records. But collection methodology matters equally. Metadata-only approaches capture source and destination IPs, ports, protocols, flow counts, and timestamps without payloads or deep packet inspection. This enables operation at internet scale while better maintaining ethical boundaries and data minimization standards. At Recorded Future, our network intelligence capabilities provide this access to such global network traffic observations for specific IP addresses of interest. Our Insikt Group uses this same infrastructure to research 500+ malware families and threat actors. Government CERTs use these capabilities to analyze adversary infrastructure at national scale. What This Means in Practice Consider what changes when your security operations can query global network intelligence. Faster SOC Triage Your team flags a suspicious IP at 2 AM. Instead of guessing whether it's noise or the start of something worse, query the network intelligence platform. See its global communication patterns instantly. Understand whether you're looking at commodity scanning or infrastructure that's been quietly staging against targets for weeks. Internet scanner detection capabilities automatically classify the behavior and reveal specific ports targeted, web requests made, and geographic distribution. Triage in minutes, not hours. Targeted or Opportunistic? Now You'll Know When threats hit your industry, the first question is always: are we specifically in the crosshairs, or is this spray-and-pray? Network intelligence lets you track adversary infrastructure across your sector before it reaches your perimeter. See the pattern. Understand the targeting. Brief leadership with confidence because you're no longer guessing. You're showing them the actual traffic patterns that prove whether your organization is in the crosshairs or caught in the spray. Fraud Infrastructure Exposed Fraud campaigns depend on infrastructure that moves fast but leaves traces. Your selectors, run against global network intelligence, can reveal the networks behind credential stuffing, account takeover, and payment fraud before the campaign fully scales. Attribution That Actually Holds Up Mapping adversary infrastructure is hard. Connecting it to broader campaigns and ultimate operators is harder. Network intelligence gives you the longitudinal visibility to trace how infrastructure evolves, clusters, and connects. Administrative traffic analysis reveals patterns operators use to manage C2 infrastructure. When you identify admin flows from a common source connecting to multiple C2 servers, you're mapping the operator's pattern based on observed...