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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.

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.

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.

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.