Overheard here in Tokyo:
(In Japanese)
“I’m so tired of Mariah Carey.”
@Balmy4285 That’s not how CTI works… “chatter” is intercepts from signals intelligence, something that doesn’t exist in CTI. Sure, criminals talk in forums, but they don’t coordinate their activities there.
CTI is about identifying the overall trends in attacker behavior and TTPs so that you can consider what parts of your own organization may become “interesting” to bad actors in the near future. But it’s not like you get some indication that someone is planning something specifically aimed at you.
Also, you never stop doing CTI to do other blue team activities, any more than the NSA or G-2 shut down when the military prepares to defend against an attack. It’s not an either/or kind of thing in either context. The two actually feed into each other, if you’re doing it right.
Overheard here in Tokyo:
(In Japanese)
“I’m so tired of Mariah Carey.”
@adschina “Amnesty International is all up in our shit about…everything…what should we do about it?”
“Let’s hack the one chapter that’s in the same country as Citizen Lab!”