The cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly, never more so than now. To everyone’s alarm, cyber-capable frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI today can identify vulnerabilities in operating systems and browsers at machine speed. Vulnerability management will never be the same. Even before these announcements, cyber defenders already had their plates full fending off AI-powered attacks. With ready access to AI tools, attackers today can automate reconnaissance, develop new malware variants, adapt malicious code and launch adaptive, self-learning campaigns faster than traditional defenses can respond. Adversaries are using automation to compress the window between vulnerability disclosure and weaponization to mere hours. That may soon hold true for zero-days and other emerging threats, too.
Under this umbrella, the OT/IoT threat landscape is undergoing its own transformation. With geopolitical tensions simmering near the boiling point, nation-state actors, ransomware groups and opportunistic adversaries are increasingly developing tools and techniques specifically designed to impact industrial control systems (ICS), connected devices and the operational processes they support.
As attacks become faster, more adaptive and more difficult to classify using known indicators alone, security teams need intelligence and detection capabilities that can help identify emerging threats earlier, reduce reliance on manual analysis, and shorten the time between threat discovery and operational protection.
Stay Ahead of Machine-speed Exploits
Curated by Nozomi Networks Labs since 2018, the Nozomi Threat Intelligence service has helped security teams stay up to date with the latest signatures and threat information about OT threats targeting their environments. Over the years we’ve enhanced the service by adding IoT threat intelligence and an integrated feed from Mandiant Threat Intelligence. Unlike IT-centric threat intelligence services, the service delivers timely threat intelligence and context about adversaries targeting operational environments, including cross-domain threats.
Detailed threat information in the form of YARA, packet and SIGMA rules; STIX and vulnerability metadata is sent to Guardian network sensors, Arc endpoint sensors and the Vantage SaaS platform, where it’s distilled into threat cards that help users see critical information from all sources at a glance. A separate Nozomi Threat Intelligence feed can be integrated directly into existing SOC tools such as SIEM or SOAR platforms.
Today, however, curated threat intelligence is not enough, even when curated by dedicated OT/IoT researchers who continuously assess the OT/IoT threat landscape and have responsibly disclosed hundreds of vulnerabilities in critical OT/ICS devices. AI-powered attacks require AI-powered defenses.
Detect Emerging Threats Targeting Industrial Environments
From Day 1, our R&D and Labs teams have been building and training our AI engine in-house, and we’ve been refining it throughout our platform ever since. The latest innovation is a new integrated AI-powered threat detection engine within Nozomi Threat Intelligence that identifies emerging threats, malicious files, malware variants and evolving attack activity across converged OT, IoT and IT environments — before signatures or known indicators are available.
The AI-powered threat detection engine enhances our curated threat intelligence by:
- Analyzing suspicious file samples collected through globally deployed Nozomi network and endpoint sensors
- Alerting Nozomi platform users and subscribers on novel, high-confidence malware detections
- Prompting Nozomi Networks Labs researchers to create signatures for confirmed new malware
The engine uses advanced ML and AI algorithms trained on hundreds of thousands of known goodware and malware samples. Because our dataset is continuously enriched with newly collected samples, the models are regularly retrained to stay current with the latest threat activity. Before deployment, each model undergoes thorough validation to confirm strong performance, and confidence thresholds are carefully selected to help protect customers while minimizing false-positive noise.
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This enhancement enables earlier warning, faster investigation and more timely detection coverage delivered directly through existing platform alert workflows, helping security teams reduce the window of exposure to new and unknown threats without adding tools or changing established processes. These new threat detection capabilities are available now to all Nozomi Networks platform customers with an active Threat Intelligence subscription and telemetry sharing enabled.
Protect Your Environment with Earlier Detections for Faster Investigation and Response
Nozomi Threat Intelligence enables industrial and critical infrastructure organizations to move from reactive incident response to proactive risk reduction, even as adversaries use AI to discover vulnerabilities, create malware and launch attacks faster than ever.
If you’re not yet taking advantage of continuously updated, industrial-focused threat intelligence fed directly into your detection and response workflows, now is the time. Contact us today.
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