The Risk-Reducing Power of Flashpoint Video Search

Flashpoint introduced an industry-first video search capability within its Intelligence Platform to enhance visibility into threat actor activities across illicit communities. As actors increasingly utilize media-rich communication to boast about exploits and sell stolen goods, this tool enables security teams to detect logos, text, explicit content, and objects within videos. Key threats addressed include financial fraud involving compromised bank accounts, credit cards, ATM skimmers, and brand impersonation. The technology supports CTI, Fraud, Brand Protection, and Physical Security teams by surfacing critical intelligence previously hidden in video formats. While no specific campaign is detailed, the capability aims to mitigate risks associated with data exposure and physical security threats. One customer previously detected over $4 million in illicit assets using related OCR capabilities. This enhancement allows for proactive monitoring and alerting on organizational assets appearing in malicious media, strengthening overall defense postures against evolving communication methods.

An industry first, Flashpoint’s video search capability can surface logos, text, explicit content, and other critical media for CTI, Fraud, Brand Protection, and Physical Security teams The post The Risk-Reducing Power of Flashpoint Video Search appeared first on Flashpoint .

Flashpoint introduced an industry-first video search capability within its Intelligence Platform to enhance visibility into threat actor activities across illicit communities. As actors increasingly utilize media-rich communication to boast about exploits and sell stolen goods, this tool enables security teams to detect logos, text, explicit content, and objects within videos. Key threats addressed include financial fraud involving compromised bank accounts, credit cards, ATM skimmers, and brand impersonation. The technology supports CTI, Fraud, Brand Protection, and Physical Security teams by surfacing critical intelligence previously hidden in video formats. While no specific campaign is detailed, the capability aims to mitigate risks associated with data exposure and physical security threats. One customer previously detected over $4 million in illicit assets using related OCR capabilities. This enhancement allows for proactive monitoring and alerting on organizational assets appearing in malicious media, strengthening overall defense postures against evolving communication methods. An industry first, Flashpoint’s video search capability can surface logos, text, explicit content, and other critical media for CTI, Fraud, Brand Protection, and Physical Security teams The post The Risk-Reducing Power of Flashpoint Video Search appeared first on Flashpoint . Blogs Blog The Risk-Reducing Power of Flashpoint Video Search An essential investigative component, Flashpoint’s industry-first video search technology surfaces logos, text, explicit content, and other critical intelligence for CTI, Fraud, Brand Protection, and Physical Security teams SHARE THIS: Flashpoint April 21, 2023 Table Of Contents Table of Contents Video as Essential Threat Intelligence What is Flashpoint Video Search Technology? What Can Flashpoint Video Search Identify? Access Flashpoint Video Search Today Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) More subscribe to our newsletter Video as Essential Threat Intelligence When advertising and selling their services, or boasting about their exploits, threat actors will often post media, including video, to illicit communities that serve as proof points for potential buyers and partners. They showcase sensitive information and stolen goods, including: stolen identities, compromised bank accounts, checks, and stolen credit cards; gift cards and receipts; fake, unlicensed merchandise; ATM skimmers and shimmers , guns and drugs, exploit code, RDP access, brand impersonation, physical security threats, and much more. Now, video use amongst threat actors is on the rise, as media-rich, mobile-first communication is becoming a primary mode of communication in illicit communities. Gaining visibility into this threat landscape is essential intelligence to CTI, Fraud, Brand Protection, and Physical Security teams, among other practitioners whose job it is to protect against exposure to fraud, corporate brand abuse, and acts of violence: Even better is having a way to search this media across text, images, and video in order to identify potential threats. Flashpoint offers all three—and our new video search analysis is a unique offering on the market. What is Flashpoint Video Search Technology? Building on the success of our OCR capability for images , security teams can now surface threats in videos posted by threat actors using object detection, logo detection, text extraction, and explicit content detection directly within the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform. Security teams across various industries in public and private sectors have realized the value of searching for, and being alerted on, images of company assets that pop up on open-source and darknet communities. Flashpoint’s video search analysis expands the scope of coverage, offering additional insights into a fast-growing medium used by threat actors. What Can It Identify? Video search analysis gives teams the ability to search for and generate keyword specific alerts for text, logos, and organizational assets inside videos across Flashpoint intelligence collections. Flashpoint’s new video search analysis helps to identify: Labels and objects , including products, locations, activities, and animal species Logos , including a library of more than 100,000 brand-specific media Text , including the detection and extraction of text within an input video using OCR Explicit content , including adult content in videos, which is generally defined as inappropriate for people under the age of 18 What Can Flashpoint Video Search Identify? Video search analysis equips security teams with the additional tools and intelligence they need in their missions of preventing fraud and protecting their organization. Financial Fraud Search for a bank or institution name to discover videos with that particular logo or text in them. Locate a threat actor boasting about ATM access, logos or text on a check or receipts, or of a physical brick and mortar building. Video search...