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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.

Questions 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.