Threat Lead Identification: Research new adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) using open sources (public information such as security vendor reporting, social media, code repositories); closed sources (dark web and underground forums); and proprietary sources.
Subject Matter: Threat leads should focus on team priority intelligence requirements (PIRs). Examples of such subject matter include malware developments, offensive security tools, vulnerability exploits, cloud security, and mobile security.
Key Detail Identification: During research, identify and take note of infection chains, host and network IoCs, malware samples, threat actors, and MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques.
Author Notes: Write TTP Instances detailing identified threat leads. TTP Instances include a combination of information from open-source reporting and your own analysis (i.e. code review, static malwar...
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