Intelligence Collection

We gather real-world Cyber Threat Intelligence tailored to your organization and your industry, revealing where your sensitive data may have already been leaked, what threat actors are targeting businesses like yours, and what you need to do about it.

What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence?

Intelligence Collection is Grey Team Foundation's Cyber Threat Intelligence module. It goes beyond scanning your systems by looking outward into the threat landscape to understand what attackers already know about you. We monitor dark web marketplaces, public breach databases, hacker forums, and industry-specific threat feeds to identify any information about your organization that has been exposed, leaked, or is actively being targeted.

The goal is straightforward: give your leadership team a clear picture of the real threats facing your business, not theoretical risks, but actual evidence of credential leaks, data exposures, brand impersonation attempts, and adversary activity in your sector. This is intelligence you can act on today.

2B+

Leaked credentials were compiled on dark web lists in 2025 alone. That's not a hypothetical number. Those are real usernames and passwords being sold, traded, and used to break into business systems every single day. Our job is to find out if any of them belong to you.

80%

Of confirmed data breaches involve the use of stolen or compromised credentials. Attackers don't need to hack in when they can simply log in. If your employees' credentials are sitting in a breach dump, your organization is one reused password away from an incident.

"Most organizations don't fail because they ignored security. They fail because they didn't know where they were actually exposed. Cyber Threat Intelligence closes that gap."

What We Investigate

Our threat intelligence analysts focus on five core areas tailored to your organization. Each area is designed to surface actionable information, not just raw data dumps, but findings your team can actually respond to.

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Dark Web Credential Exposure. We search dark web marketplaces, paste sites, and known breach databases for any leaked credentials associated with your organization's domains. If employee usernames and passwords are circulating, we find them and tell you exactly which accounts are compromised.
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Leaked Data and Breach Monitoring. Beyond credentials, we look for any organizational data that has surfaced in public or underground channels. This includes internal documents, customer records, financial data, and proprietary information that may have been exfiltrated or inadvertently exposed.
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Brand and Domain Impersonation. We identify lookalike domains, spoofed websites, and social media accounts impersonating your brand. These are commonly used in phishing campaigns targeting your employees, customers, and business partners.
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Industry-Specific Threat Briefing. We compile a briefing on current threat actor activity, recent breaches, and emerging attack patterns specific to your industry vertical. If you're in healthcare, you get healthcare threat intelligence. If you're in financial services, you get financial services intelligence. Not generic reports.
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Executive and VIP Exposure Analysis. Key personnel are high-value targets. We check whether your executives' personal information, email addresses, or credentials appear in breach data, social engineering databases, or public records that could be weaponized against your organization.

How the Engagement Works

Intelligence Collection is led by analysts with backgrounds in intelligence operations and threat research. The engagement combines automated monitoring with hands-on analysis to deliver findings that are accurate, relevant, and actionable for your specific situation.

Intake and Targeting

We start by identifying what to look for: your organization's domains, key personnel names and email addresses, brand identifiers, and any known previous incidents. This targeting phase ensures we're searching for information specific to you, not running generic queries.

Collection and Monitoring

Our analysts search across multiple intelligence sources, including dark web forums, paste sites, breach databases, domain registration records, social media, and industry threat feeds. We cross-reference findings to verify accuracy and eliminate noise.

Analysis and Correlation

Raw data becomes intelligence when you add context. We correlate what we find against your technology environment, your industry's threat landscape, and known adversary tactics. A leaked credential is one thing. A leaked credential for an admin account on a system we identified during your Cyber Threat Surface Overview is something else entirely.

Briefing and Deliverables

You receive an intelligence briefing tailored to your audience. For leadership, we deliver a clear summary of immediate threats, exposure findings, and strategic recommendations. For technical teams, we provide specific indicators of compromise, affected accounts, and remediation steps. Larger engagements include a full threat trend presentation with industry benchmarks.

Why This Matters for Your Business

Intelligence Collection is the third module in the C.V.I.P²-A framework because it adds a critical dimension that scanning alone cannot provide. The Cyber Threat Surface Overview shows you what's exposed. The Vulnerability Assessment shows you what's weak. Intelligence Collection shows you what's already been compromised and who is actively targeting organizations like yours.

This is where technical findings meet the real world. A vulnerability on a server is concerning. That same vulnerability on a server whose admin credentials are already circulating on the dark web is an emergency. Cyber Threat Intelligence connects those dots.

For organizations in regulated industries, Cyber Threat Intelligence is increasingly expected as part of a mature cybersecurity program. Frameworks like NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, and NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 all emphasize the importance of understanding your threat environment, not just your internal controls.

Who Should Get This Assessment

Any organization that handles sensitive data, operates in a targeted industry, or wants to understand the real-world threats facing their business. This module is especially valuable for:

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Healthcare organizations. Patient data is among the most valuable on the dark web. If your organization has been part of a breach or your providers' credentials are circulating, you need to know before attackers use them.
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Banks, credit unions, and financial services. Financial institutions are consistently among the most targeted sectors. Credential theft, account takeover, and wire fraud all begin with intelligence that attackers gather first. You should have that same intelligence.
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Restaurants, retail, and hospitality. POS system compromises, payment card theft, and customer data breaches are rampant in this sector. If your brand is being impersonated or your payment systems have been flagged in underground channels, early detection is everything.
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Law firms and professional services. Law firms hold some of the most sensitive information in any industry: privileged communications, M&A data, litigation strategy. A single compromised attorney email can expose an entire case.
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Manufacturing and supply chain. Industrial espionage and supply chain attacks are growing rapidly. Threat actors target manufacturing firms for intellectual property, operational disruption, and as a stepping stone into larger partner networks.

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