Use case · Ransomware Intelligence
Spot ransomware in your supply chain before it spreads.
Vendors don't get hit at random. The signals, credential leaks, patch decay, perimeter exposure, infrastructure shifts, show up weeks before the leak-site post. Cyb3r Operations watches them across your supplier graph so the team that's watching sees them first.
From the field
“We flagged the supplier on a Tuesday. They were named on a leak site four weeks later. The CFO asked how we knew. We knew because the Cyb3r platform provided this intelligence.”
Head of GRC · EU Financial Services
Where it sits in the platform
The moment
The supplier on the leak site we'd been quietly watching.
Late on a Friday a tier-2 logistics supplier was named on a ransomware leak site. The CISO and the Head of GRC had been watching them for four weeks already. The signals feed had moved from amber to red in early March: credentials on a forum, two unpatched perimeter services, an internal user account name leaking in test traffic.
By the time the supplier publicly disclosed, the GRC team had three weeks of recorded evidence, a draft board note, and a sourcing manager already running a contingency conversation with a backup vendor. The disclosure was a confirmation, not a surprise.
What was actually true
- ·Ransomware attacks announced via leak site, never disclosed in time
- ·Two to three named supply-chain ransomware events per quarter in 2024-26
- ·Insurance underwriters now ask for evidence of pre-attack monitoring
- ·Boards expect the answer to "were we exposed" before the news breaks
What changed
What Ransomware Intelligence put on the GRC team's screen.
Signals-based scoring per vendor. Probability-weighted view of which suppliers show pre-attack signals, refreshed continuously.
Pre-attack signal correlation. Credential leaks, perimeter exposure, patch decay, infrastructure shifts, combined into a single trend per supplier.
Live leak-site monitoring. Named-vendor watchlist across the major ransomware leak sites, refreshed continuously.
More it does in the background
Threat-actor targeting analysis.
Which ransomware groups are actively targeting your supplier's sector and region.
Business-weighted prioritisation.
Sort the signals list by impact on your continuity-critical services.
Routes into your stack.
Findings into Splunk, Sentinel, Cortex, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, the workflow your team already runs.
How the four weeks played out
From early signal to public disclosure.
What the GRC team saw, when they saw it, and what changed each week.
T-30 days
Score moves amber to red
Three credential pairs surface on a forum, two unpatched perimeter services, an internal user account leaking in test traffic. Signals feed crosses threshold.
T-14 days
Threat actor named
Active ransomware group named for the supplier's sector and region. Internal stakeholder briefed; backup-vendor conversation started.
T+0
Supplier named on leak site
Three weeks of recorded evidence, a contingency vendor in motion, a draft board note ready for the next morning's risk committee.
Who this lands for
The roles that pull value from this use case.
Each persona reads it slightly differently. Click through to the role-specific page for the full picture.
For GRC
Walks into the next board meeting with three weeks of recorded evidence.
Open the GRC pageFor CISO
Pre-positions the incident response runbook before the leak-site post lands.
Open the CISO pageFor CFO
Cyber-insurance renewals get easier when you can show pre-attack monitoring evidence.
Open the CFO pageQuestions buyers asked
Questions GRC and security teams ask in the first conversation.
We don't. We surface the observable pre-attack signals, credential leaks, patch decay, perimeter exposure, infrastructure shifts. The signals correlate to attack outcomes; the prediction is probability-weighted, not deterministic.
Lower than questionnaire-based assessments and continuously improving. Signals scores are probability-weighted, tunable by supplier criticality.
Major leak sites and named threat actors, refreshed live. New groups added as they emerge.
Signals feed Splunk, Sentinel, Cortex. SOC analysts get the supplier signal in the workflow they already run.
Signals feed stays green. The platform surfaces relative risk; it doesn't manufacture concern where there isn't any.
Yes. Disclosure shifts the score and the platform automatically opens a response workflow tied to your incident response runbook.