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Monitor threat actor mentions of your brand

Surface mentions of your brand, executives, infrastructure, and customers across underground forums, marketplaces, and threat-actor channels.

The problem

Threat actor chatter often precedes attack. Without continuous, scoped monitoring, security teams learn of targeting only after compromise.

Why it matters now

Initial-access brokers, ransomware affiliates, and fraud crews operate in the open across forums and channels. Early signal turns into reduced impact.

How Verasity™ solves it

Underground source coverage

Continuous collection across forums, marketplaces, Telegram, and Discord.

Brand- and asset-scoped alerting

Alert only on mentions tied to your monitored brands, executives, and infrastructure.

Actor context

Enrich findings with known actor histories, affiliations, and TTPs.

SOC integration

Push findings into SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing for triage and hunting.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. 1

    Register brands, executives, IP ranges, and key assets.

  2. 2

    Continuous collection across underground sources.

  3. 3

    Filter for mentions tied to monitored assets.

  4. 4

    Enrich with actor context and risk-score by impact.

  5. 5

    Push to SOC tooling with response playbooks.

Example chatter

A ransomware-affiliated broker advertises VPN access matching your IP range. Verasity™ flags Critical, packages context, and routes to the SOC for hunting.

Outcomes you can expect

  • Earlier signal on targeted threat-actor interest
  • Better-prepared SOC and IR response
  • Reduced dwell time on attacker reconnaissance
  • Evidence-backed intel for executive briefings

Metrics tracked

  • Targeted mentions per month
  • Median time-to-SOC handoff
  • Confirmed pre-attack signals matched to incidents
  • Source coverage breadth

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