See threats to your industry and country in real time

Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with broken headlights. Threats are accelerating, alerts are increasing, and SOCs struggle to understand which hazards are currently important to the business. Moving away from reactive defense is no longer an option. It’s the difference between preventing an incident and handling it afterwards.

Here’s a path from reactive firefighting to a proactive, context-rich SOC that actually knows what’s going to happen.

When the SOC can only see the rearview mirror

Many SOCs still rely on backward-looking workflows. Analysts wait for alerts, investigate, escalate, and ultimately respond. This pattern is understandable. Work is noisy, tools are complex, and alert fatigue can send even the toughest teams into reactive mode.

However, the reactive attitude hides some structural problems.

We don’t know what threat actors have in store. Limited ability to predict campaigns targeting sectors of the organization. You can’t adjust your defenses before the attack hits. Over-reliance on signatures that reflect yesterday’s activity.

As a result, SOCs are always catching up, but rarely getting ahead.

The cost of waiting for the alarm to sound

Reactive SOCs pay for time, money, and risk.

Longer investigation. Analysts must investigate any suspicious object from scratch due to the lack of broader context. Waste of resources. Without visibility into which threats are relevant to your industry or region, your team will be chasing false positives instead of focusing on the real dangers. The likelihood of a breach is higher. Threat actors often reuse infrastructure and target specific industries. Discovering these patterns late gives the attacker an advantage.

A proactive SOC flips this script by reducing uncertainty. You know what threats are prevalent in your environment, what campaigns are active, and which alerts merit immediate escalation.

Threat Intelligence: The Engine of Proactive Security

Threat intelligence fills the gap left by reactive operations. This provides a body of evidence about what attackers are currently doing and how their tools are evolving.

ANY.RUN’s threat intelligence lookups serve as a tactical magnifier for your SOC. Transform raw threat data into operational assets.

TI Lookup: Investigate threats and indicators, click the search bar and select parameters

Analysts can immediately:

Power your alerts with behavioral and infrastructure data. Accurately identify malware families and campaigns. Understand how samples behave when exploded in a sandbox. Investigate artifacts, DNS, IPs, hashes, and relationships in seconds.

For organizations looking to develop a more proactive stance, TI Lookup serves as a starting point for faster triage, more reliable decisions, and a clearer understanding of threat relationships.

ANY.RUN’s TI feed complements your SOC workflow by providing continuously updated indicators collected from real malware executions. This allows defenses to adapt to the speed at which threats evolve.

Focus on threats that actually matter to your business

But context alone is not enough. Teams must interpret this intelligence for their specific business environment. Threats are not evenly distributed around the world. Each sector and region has its own malware families, campaigns, and criminal groups.

Which industries and countries do companies most often encounter Tycoon 2FA these days?

Threat intelligence lookups support industry and geographic attribution of threats and indicators, helping SOCs answer important questions.

Is this alert relevant to our department? Is this malware known to target companies in our country? Are we seeing early activity in campaigns targeting organizations like ours?

By mapping activity to both industry verticals and regions, SOCs can instantly understand where threats exist in the risk landscape. This reduces noise, speeds triage, and allows teams to focus on the threats that truly require action.

For example: Suspicious domains were found to be associated with the Lumma Stealer and ClickFix attacks that primarily targeted telecommunications and hospitality industries in the United States and Canada.

Domain name: “Benelui.Click”

Industries and countries most targeted by threats involving IOCs

Or, let’s say the CISO of a German manufacturing company wants a baseline of sector risk.

Industry: “Manufacturing” and country of application: “DE”

TI Lookup overview of malware samples analyzed by users in Germany targeting the manufacturing industry

This query reveals key threats such as Tycoon 2FA and EvilProxy, as well as an interest in the domestic production arm of the Storm-1747 APT group that operates Tycoon 2FA. This will be your immediate priority list for detection engineering, threat hunting hypotheses, and security awareness training.

Analysts access sandbox sessions and real-world IOCs related to these threats. IOCs and TTPs are instantly provided by TI Lookup fuel detection rules for the most relevant threats, so you can proactively detect and mitigate incidents to protect your business and its customers.

View the sandbox session for Lumma stealer sample analysis.

Sandbox analysis: See malware in action, view kill chains, collect IOCs

Why you need greater visibility into your threat landscape

Attacker infrastructure is rapidly changing and attacks are no longer limited to one threat per campaign. We are currently seeing the emergence of hybrid threats, where multiple malware families are combined within a single operation. These blended attacks combine logic from different infrastructures, redirection layers, and credential theft modules, making them significantly harder to detect, track, and attribute.

Salty and Tycoon hybrid attack detected in ANY.RUN sandbox in just 35 seconds

Recent research has revealed that Tycoon 2FA and Salty are operating in parallel within the same chain. One kit runs the initial lure and reverse proxy, and another kit takes over session hijacking and credential capture. For many SOC teams, this combination defeats existing defense strategies and detection rules, allowing attackers to bypass layers of security.

It has become important to track these changes across the broader threat landscape. Analysts need to monitor catalog kit variations as well as behavioral patterns and attack logic in real time. The faster teams can see these links forming, the faster they can respond to phishing campaigns built with adaptability in mind.

Conclusion: A clearer outlook for modern SOC

Companies can no longer afford blind spots in their SOC. Attackers become specialized, campaigns become localized, and malware evolves faster than signatures can keep up. Aggressive defense requires context, clarity, and speed.

Threat intelligence lookups, powered by industry and regional context and supported by the latest metrics from TI feeds, give SOC leaders just that. Instead of reacting to alerts in the dark, decision makers can gain a proactive perspective on the threats that really matter to their business.