This eBook reviews the current state of open source intelligence (OSINT) and its growing importance in understanding the cyber threat landscape. It highlights key challenges such as information overload, uncertainty, and data quality. Anomali’s research analyzes intelligence sources, the volume and types of indicators of compromise collected, and the most common malware families attributed through OSINT, with Emotet dominating recent activity. Charts show that malware file hashes make up over half of collected IoCs, while spam and bot IPs are also significant. The briefing also examines false positive rates across OSINT feeds, stressing the need for careful validation to improve signal-to-noise ratio. Anomali ThreatStream is presented as a platform to manage these challenges at scale with

Join for free to read