Updated March 20, 2023
Introduction to Threat Intelligence Tools
Threat Intelligence Tools in this cybercriminals are constantly coming up with new techniques, tools, procedures to attack the networks, to do theft of data and information targeting various organizations. The organizations consisting of various teams of variable sizes are being helped by several tools, services, and products to defend against the threats.
The threat intelligence team uses several tools to fight against cybercriminals, and they are called threat intelligence tools. The security industries use these tools to check the loopholes in the network. The safety of the organization can be ensured by analyzing the potential attacks with the help of these tools.
Different Types of Threat Intelligence Tools
Given below are the different types of threat intelligence tools:
1. io: Apility.io is a lookup tool for the anti-abuse API blacklist. The blacklisted IP, domain or Email is known to the users immediately as they are blacklisted. The information from multiple sources is automatically extracted by the tool.
2. APT Groups and Operations: The information, operations, and intelligence about their groups and tactics are contained in the APT groups and operations spreadsheet.
3. Autoshun: Two thousand malicious internet providers and other resources are being offered by the autoshun tool, which is a public service.
4. BGP Ranking: The ASN’s consisting of content that is most malicious are ranked.
5. Botnet Tracker: The botnet tracker tracks the active botnets.
6. EU: The possible malicious activities in our security devices can be tracked by using different sets of open source IOC’s which is provided by botvrij.eu.
7. Brute Force Blocker: The firewall blocking rules are automatically configured by the identified brute force attacks by the Perl script called brute force blocker, and it monitors the server’s sshd logs.
8. C & C Tracker: The internet providers’ addresses that are active and non-sink holed from Bambenek Consulting are present in C & C tracker.
9. Cert Stream: It is a log update stream of real-time certificate transparency.
10. CCSS Forum Malware Certificates: The authority of certification for malware reports the digital certificates as being affected by malware. The companies use this information and avoid using the certificates and try to revoke those certificates.
11. CI Army List: CINS score list’s subset is the CI Army List. The poorly rated Internet providers that are not part of another list of threats are being focused on by the CI Army List.
12. Critical Stack Intel: Critical Stack Intel parses and aggregates the threat intelligence, and it can be used in any bro production system. The trusted feeds can be specified and can be ingested.
13. C1f App: C1f app is an application that aggregates open-source and private threats. C1f app is running for a long time, and it provides a dashboard for statistics and allows searching through open API. C1f App is searching historical data.
14. Cymon: All the indicators of threats are clubbed into a single interface in order to face multiple threats through a single interface, and Cymon is doing this. It provides an API along with a web interface to search the database.
15. Disposable Email Domains: Disposable Email Domains is a collection of anonymous or disposable emails used as spam services.
16. DNS Trails: This intelligence tool, DNS trails, provides the DNS information that is current and historical, information about WHOIS, finding websites related to certain internet providers, subdomain technologies, and knowledge.
17. Emerging Threats Firewall Rules: Various kinds of firewalls like iptables, PF, PIX, etc., come under this collection of rules.
18. Emerging Threats IDS Rules: Alerting and blocking can be done using snort and Suricata rules, and this collection of rules is Emerging Threats IDS Rules.
19. Exonera Tor: The Tor network consists of internet providers addresses, and these addresses are maintained as a database by Exonera Tor. If a Tor relay runs on a given internet provider’s address on a given data, it is identified by Exonera Tor service.
20. Exploit Alert: The list of exploits that are released recently.
21. ZeuS Tracker: The feodo tracker abuse.ch is tracking the feodo trojan.
22. FireHOL IP Lists: The evolution, geo map, age of internet providers, retention policies are documented by analyzing more than four hundred internet providers feed. Cyber crimes like attacks, malware, and abuse are the points of focus of the site.
23. Fraud Guard: The internet traffic is continuously collected and analyzed to easily validate its usage, and the threat intelligence tool Fraud Guard provides this service.
24. Grey Noise: The internet-wide scanners consist of data that are collected and analyzed by the system Grey Noise. Benign scanners like shodan, malicious actors like SSH, telnet worms, etc., are used to collect the data.
25. Hail a TAXII: The feeds from cyber threat intelligence are stored in Hail a TAXII.com in the format STIX. Several feeds are offered by Hail a TAXII.com, like Emerging threats rules, and Phish Tank feeds.
26. Honey DB: The activity of the honeypot’s real-time data is provided by honey DB. HoneyPy honeypot is used to deploy the honeypots on the internet, and the data is extracted from them. The collection of honeypot activity is given access by honey DB. It also contains clubbed data from several honeypot Twitter feeds.
27. I-Blocklist: Internet provider’s addresses from different categories like countries, internet service providers, organizations, etc., are maintained as lists by I-Blocklist. Web attacks, TOR, spyware, etc., are the other categories.
28. Majestic Million: As per the Majestic, Probable Whitelist ranking of the top 1 million web sites. The referring subnets are used to order the sites.
29. Malc0de DNS Sinkhole: The domains that are involved in distributing malware for the past thirty days are updated in a file using Malc0de DNS Sinkhole.
30. com: It is a repository of malware, and researchers can access these samples for free.
Conclusion
The threat intelligence tools provide strategies and enhancements against cyber-attacks, but it is important to educate the employees of the organization about cyber-attacks. A simple phishing email is the beginning of any cyber-attack. If the employees are not well trained to recognize and report suspicious emails, the usage of the above-mentioned tools will be of no use. Hence educating the employees about cyber attacks plays a critical role in threat intelligence.
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