CASE STUDY – FINANCIAL SERVICES
A threat-led approach to cyber intelligence boosts efficiencies for global financial services provider
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The client is a multinational financial services provider operating across North America and Europe. Supporting millions of customers with online banking, payments, and credit services, the organization manages critical digital infrastructure in one of the most targeted and highly regulated industries.
The client’s challenge
Despite significant investment in cybersecurity, the client’s threat intelligence operations were reactive and fragmented. Key challenges included:
- Low signal-to-noise ratio: Open-source threat feeds lacked prioritization and actionable context.
- Limited dark web visibility: No systematic monitoring for leaked credentials or brand impersonation.
- Rising ransomware and credential attacks: Increased attempts targeting employees, customers, and third-party suppliers.
- Insufficient CTI capacity: Lack of internal expertise to analyze and operationalize intelligence across security teams.
The organization sought a partner to deliver a threat-led program that would provide contextual, actionable insights aligned to business risk, integrated with its Secutity Operations Center (SOC), Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and vulnerability management functions.
Benefits
- 75% reduction in phishing exposure through rapid domain and app takedowns.
- 90% decrease in leaked credentials and 65% fewer brute-force attempts.
- Faster ransomware containment, with sub-four-hour Mean-time-to-Respond (MTTR) and zero data loss.
- Improved executive visibility through continuous intelligence reporting aligned to business risk.
Our solution
CyberProof deployed its Tailored Threat Intelligence service, combining analyst expertise with agentic AI automation to transform raw data into business-relevant intelligence. The Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team provided continuous monitoring of ransomware, phishing, and credential-based campaigns mapped to the client’s digital footprint, ensuring only relevant alerts were escalated.
The engagement included asset-based monitoring of the client’s domains, IP ranges, and brand activity across dark web forums and ransomware leak sites. Strategic threat advisories offered executive-level insights into adversary behavior, geopolitical risks, and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned threat scenarios, ensuring leadership decisions were rooted in real-world intelligence.
CyberProof’s proactive takedown service removed fraudulent domains and counterfeit mobile apps within hours of detection, reducing the phishing footprint by more than 75%. Intelligence outputs were also integrated directly into SIEM enrichment, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and penetration testing, creating a closed feedback loop that continuously strengthened defenses.
Results
Within six months, the organization transitioned from reactive monitoring to proactive, intelligence-led defense. Early identification of a BlackBasta ransomware attempt enabled rapid isolation and containment within 12 hours, preventing data exfiltration and keeping MTTR under four hours. Continuous dark web monitoring uncovered thousands of leaked credentials, prompting a hygiene program that reduced credential exposure by 90% and brute-force attempts by 65%.
CyberProof’s threat-led program improved visibility across the attack surface, optimized costs by consolidating multiple intelligence tools, and enhanced collaboration between security operations, vulnerability management, and leadership teams.
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