/en/categories/cti/Recent content in CTI on Suspicious BytesHugoen-USFri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/posts/building-a-threat-actor-profile/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/posts/building-a-threat-actor-profile/<p>Cyber threat intelligence is only useful when it changes a decision. A good actor profile turns scattered observations into something a defender can act on this week, not just read.</p> <h2 id="structure-beats-prose">Structure beats prose</h2> <p>A profile that reads like a story is hard to operationalise. Capture it as structured fields instead:</p> <ul> <li>Aliases and overlapping clusters</li> <li>Targeted sectors and regions</li> <li>Observed techniques (mapped to ATT&amp;CK)</li> <li>Known infrastructure patterns</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>Intelligence without a confidence level is just a rumour with good formatting. State what you know, how well you know it, and how you&rsquo;d be proven wrong.</p>