Close SOC Blind Spots with Real-Time, Geo-Smart Threat Intel

Stop driving your SOC through fog. Alerts pile up, signatures lag, and attackers evolve fast. Here’s how to replace rear-view security with a forward-looking, context-rich program that surfaces the threats most likely to hit your business.

The problem with reactive SOCs

• No visibility into what threat actors are staging next
• Limited ability to anticipate industry-targeted campaigns
• Inability to adjust defenses before attacks land
• Overreliance on signatures that reflect yesterday’s activity

The cost of waiting for the alarm

• Longer investigations as analysts rebuild context from scratch
• Wasted resources chasing irrelevant alerts and false positives
• Higher breach risk as adversaries reuse infrastructure against specific sectors

Make threat intelligence your engine
Threat intelligence closes the gap left by reactive workflows by showing what attackers are doing right now. ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Lookup turns raw indicators into operational context so teams can:

• Enrich alerts with behavioral and infrastructure data
• Identify malware families and map campaigns with precision
• See how a sample behaves in a sandbox before making decisions
• Pivot across artifacts (DNS, IPs, hashes, relations) in seconds

ANY.RUN’s TI Feeds add continuously updated indicators from real malware executions so your detections keep pace with evolving campaigns.

Add industry and geo context to cut noise
Threats aren’t evenly distributed. Sector and country matter. Threat Intelligence Lookup helps answer:

• Is this alert relevant to our industry?
• Is this malware active against companies in our country?
• Are we seeing early moves of a campaign aimed at organizations like ours?

Examples

• domainName:"benelui.click" ties to Lumma Stealer and ClickFix activity focusing on telecom and hospitality in the US and Canada.
• Query industry:"Manufacturing" and submissionCountry:"DE" surfaces top risks like Tycoon 2FA and EvilProxy and highlights interest from the Storm-1747 APT group—actionable inputs for detection engineering, threat hunting, and awareness.

From context to action

• Convert IOCs and TTPs into prioritized detections for the threats most likely to impact you
• Speed up triage by auto-enriching alerts with sandbox behavior and real-world IOCs
• Hunt active campaigns and rapidly validate hypotheses in the sandbox

Why this matters now: hybrid, blended attacks
Attackers increasingly combine multiple kits in one operation, merging infrastructures, redirectors, and credential-theft modules. Recent chains showed Tycoon 2FA operating alongside Salty—one running the initial lure and reverse proxy, the other handling session hijacking or credential capture. These blends evade static rules and strain attribution.

Tracking behaviors and infrastructure links in real time is essential. ANY.RUN’s sandbox has detected such combinations in seconds, enabling faster response and better coverage against agile phishing and credential-theft ops.

Practical rollout checklist for a proactive SOC

• Integrate TI Lookup into triage to auto-enrich alerts
• Track industry and country targeting trends weekly and tune SIEM/SOAR
• Translate fresh IOCs/TTPs into detection rules and blocklists
• Hunt for hybrid chains across behavior and infrastructure pivots
• Feed EDR, email, and web controls with TI Feeds daily
• Measure gains: reduced MTTR, higher alert precision, lower dwell time

Bottom line
Modern SOCs can’t afford blind spots. With real-time, industry and geo-aware threat intelligence, sandbox evidence, and continuously refreshed indicators, you move from firefighting to foresight—focusing on the threats that matter most to your organization.

Source: The Hacker News