Cybersecurity

Today, Recorded Future is announcing AI Infrastructure Indicator Lists, curated datasets for security teams to identify, monitor, and implement controls for AI-related network traffic. AI Infrastructure Indicator Lists are included for free for Recorded Future customers with a Cyber Operations license. Artificial intelligence has increasingly become enterprise infrastructure and organizations are now confronting unsanctioned tool use (also known as shadow AI), data exposure, and autonomo

Executive Summary Japan’s Active Cyber Defense (ACD) framework shifts the country from voluntary information sharing and post-incident investigation to mandatory reporting, preventive communications analysis, and limited disruption of attack infrastructure. Beginning October 1, 2026, designated critical infrastructure operators must notify the government about covered systems and report qualifying incidents; those with existing systems have six months to submit initial notifications. New

Rethinking defense entirely We know attackers are already using AI to operate at machine speed, running more frequent and more effective attacks. They're automating reconnaissance, standing up infrastructure, and pivoting faster than human analysts can triage an alert. We have seen the cyber kill chain that used to unfold step by step now happens in the blink of an eye, and defenders are struggling to keep up in a fight that no longer gives them time to react. It's clear that org

Most AI-enabled social engineering can still be addressed through existing defenses, but synthetic media attacks require organizations to adapt those defenses and stop treating a familiar face or voice as proof of identity. Many uses of AI in social engineering, including personalizing phishing messages, building fraudulent websites, and automating responses, make established techniques faster, cheaper, and easier to scale. Although organizations must adapt their defenses to addres

Recorded Future MCP is now generally available, giving AI agents and LLM workflows direct access to Recorded Future's Intelligence Graph® and enabling precise, trustworthy, and cost-effective decision-making at machine speed and scale.

Ransomware does not start when files are encrypted. By then, an attacker may already have obtained valid credentials, entered the network, moved between systems and established a command-and-control (C2) channel. That gives defenders an earlier window to act. Ransomware threat intelligence helps security teams identify the actors, infrastructure and access methods connected to ransomware activity before an attack reaches its final stage. Instead of waiting for an endpoint alert or ransom

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has escalated its use of hybrid, asymmetric warfare across Europe, far beyond the former Soviet Union, where Russia historically focused its aggression. These tactics fall under a Russian military strategy known as New Generation Warfare (NGW). Insikt Group assesses that Russia is likely to escalate NGW tactics over the next two years, potentially culminating in a full-scale NGW campaign. Europe-based private and public secto

Recorded Future's Insikt GroupⓇ has been tracking ClickFix, a social engineering technique that turns a familiar logo or verification prompt into the entry point for an attack. Here's what that research reveals about catching it, and why it's now running inside Malicious Site Monitoring, part of our newly launched Digital Risk Protection solution. Recorded Future's Insikt GroupⓇ, our team of threat intelligence analysts and security researchers, has been tracking a te

The intelligence community has always done things the same way: Identify a potential source (a target); make a recruitment (an agent); train, brief, and run the agent in place to collect intelligence of value to decision makers. A great agent gives the decision maker insight into intent, and a reasoning and decision advantage over his or her adversaries. In some circumstances, this advantage shapes destiny. Control over destiny is commonly called sovereignty. AI has rapidly made

Recorded Future was just named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026. We’re incredibly proud of this acknowledgment, just as we are of every recognition we’ve received over the years. Behind every one of these industry evaluations is a lot of work that readers never see — including product demonstrations, customer reference calls, briefing presentations, and formal questionnaire submissions — all of it condensed into a single final repor

Global security frameworks are evolving: Security organizations are increasingly leveraging global frameworks to navigate the complexities of AI-enabled threats, balancing the need for standardized best practices with the necessity of business-specific risk decisions. Intelligence-led defense is essential: Modern, intelligence-led defense generally requires operationalizing security at machine speed by integrating enriched, contextual threat data, which better enables strategic,

Executive Summary This report provides insights and analysis to better understand the role of third-party vendors and guarantee marketplaces from the perspective of Tajin Group, a third-party vendor that advertises and provides services on two Telegram-based Chinese-language guarantee marketplaces, Dabai Guarantee and Xinbi Guarantee. This includes operational challenges, perspectives regarding the competition from other threat groups, and how Tajin Group adapts to changes in its operati

An alert may be the first sign a security team sees, but it rarely marks the beginning of an attack. Before an intrusion reaches the network, threat actors may research targets, prepare infrastructure, trade stolen credentials, or discuss vulnerabilities they plan to exploit. Security teams that rely solely on internal alerts may miss earlier activity. Proactive threat intelligence helps security teams identify and assess threats earlier by adding external context about adversari

Imagine the same detective working two different cases. In the first, every piece of evidence arrives as a disconnected fragment—names without relationships, events without timelines, motives without context. In the second, the connections among people, events, and evidence are already established before the detective walks in. Which case does the detective solve faster? The detective solves the second case much faster than the first, but not because the detective is more intelli

Recorded Future just launched Digital Risk Protection, a unified solution covering five external threat surfaces, so security teams can detect, triage, and take down brand and identity threats within one workflow.

In August 2026, Insikt Group® identified 73 high-impact vulnerabilities that should be prioritized for remediation, 43 of which had a Very Critical Recorded Future Risk Score. This represents a 14% decrease from last month. 31 of these vulnerabilities were surfaced through the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 32 were reported in open sources and validated by Insikt Group, seven were sourced through security vendor telemet

Today, Recorded Future is announcing Automated Signature Creation, a new capability in Attack Surface Intelligence (ASI) to combat the speed of AI-generated exploits. ASI continuously maps an organization’s external exposure, correlates newly surfaced vulnerabilities with real-world threat intelligence, and prioritizes response to enable defenders to remediate before adversaries can act. This new function within ASI automatically creates signatures, pieces of detection logic that

Executive Summary H1 2026 activity showed a continued adversary preference for abusing legitimate tools, trusted platforms, and routine workflows already present in enterprise and consumer environments. Threat actors used exposed software, developer tools, remote access utilities, payment workflows, and third-party services to gain access, steal credentials, move laterally, and monetize intrusions while blending into expected activity. This emphasis on evasion through normalcy rather tha

Moving beyond "AI theater" with measurable KPIs: Security teams must distinguish between genuine value and "productivity theater." Success requires defining concrete KPIs—such as cost improvement, risk reduction, and speed—to measure true ROI, rather than deploying AI tools without a clear strategic purpose. Mitigate new autonomous risks: The shift to an agentic SOC introduces distinct threats, such as indirect prompt injection, and creates visibility gaps that traditional SIEM p

Executive Summary Insikt Group has identified a series of BlueDelta initial access campaigns conducted between late September 2025 and early April 2026, targeting government and diplomatic organizations in Romania, Spain, and Türkiye. The campaigns delivered a lightweight Windows batch-script backdoor, dubbed "HOOKEDGE," via macro-enabled Microsoft Word documents using diplomatic-themed lures, including material impersonating Spain's Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with