Intelligence Threat Researcher

About Us:

Cybersecurity intelligence is revolutionizing the threat landscape with proactive detection and mitigation. We empower enterprises with real-time visibility into cyber threats and vulnerabilities.

Our mission is to make the digital world a safer place through cutting-edge technology, continuous innovation, and excellence in products and business practices.

We foster inclusivity, offering team members autonomy, flexibility, and a voice in our culture.

About the Role:

The Threat Analyst will monitor dark web channels, analyze threat actor behaviors, and support global intelligence operations. This role demands expertise in OSINT, cyber tradecraft, and threat intelligence tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Discover and triage underground forums, dark web marketplaces, and social media platforms to identify potential cybercrime activities.
• Analyze potential cybercrime activities to detect serious threats and research emerging trends.
• Track financially motivated threat actors, state-backed threat actors, and region-specific target actors.
• Conduct threat research to identify motivation, goals, targets, capabilities, and modus operandi (tactics, techniques, and procedures) of cyber threat actors and groups.
• Collate threat research findings and assessments into deliverables for timely intelligence dissemination.
• Provide incident management and threat research support to clients.
• Support internal and external ad-hoc requests with research and intelligence.
• Collaborate with global teams for information exchange and joint research.

Requirements:

• Mandatory Work Requirements:
  • Must be able to work during either Indian Standard Time or United States Time Zones.
  • Willing to work in rotating shifts and weekends to support 24x7 operations.
• Skills and Qualifications Required:
  • Excellent understanding of cybersecurity concepts, modern threat landscape, and intelligence framework.
  • Good knowledge in cybercrime methodologies and TTPs opted by financially motivated and state-sponsored threat actors and groups.
  • Experience in cyber tradecraft and online persona management (sock puppets) for gathering closed sources information from the underground forums.
  • Experience in open-source intelligence (OSINT) research.
  • Experience in writing analytical and intelligence reports.
  • Experience in handling investigations on given artifacts or IoCs related to malicious campaigns such as phishing, ransomware, financial frauds.
  • Experience in investigating and analyzing suspicious IP addresses, domains, and malicious infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience in Maltego, Shodan, Google Earth, Whois, Search Engines, VirusTotal or other OSINT tools for relevant investigations.
  • Good understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Good understanding of operational security (OPSEC).
  • Good verbal communication and writing skills.
  • Understanding of vulnerability assessment & penetration testing (VAPT) methods and red-teaming tools.
  • A passionate individual, self-starter with ability to drive independent research.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Former experience in law enforcement operations, or experience in supporting intelligence operations.
• Credible cybersecurity certification (CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or equivalent) is a plus.

Optional Qualifications:

• Experience in malware research and reverse engineering.
• Understanding of geopolitical matters and intelligence aspects.
• Multilingual Proficiency – Mandarin/Spanish/French/Arabic.

We value diversity, inclusion, and career growth.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status, or genetics.