<span>About the Arkose Cyber Threat Intelligence Research (ACTIR) Unit</span>

About the Arkose Cyber Threat Intelligence Research (ACTIR) Unit

Arkose Cyber Threat Intelligence Research (ACTIR) is Arkose Labs’ dedicated counterintelligence unit. Its mandate is focused on threat hunting, risk intelligence, disarmament, and virtual enforcement. The unit is composed of seasoned threat researchers and data scientists, located around the world, enabling the team to take a “sun-never-sets” approach to threat detection and mitigation. ACTIR plays a pivotal role in keeping the biggest enterprises in the world safe from bot incursions, fraud farms, and hybrid automated attacks. 

About Arkose Labs

Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse, helping category leaders, frontier businesses, and the most recognizable brands globally create a safe online environment for their consumers by detecting and mitigating cyber attacks.

Recent News

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CaaS Alert: The Disruption of Storm-1152

Discover how Microsoft, with threat intelligence from ACTIR, disrupted one of the largest and most notorious threat actor groups to build cybercrime-as-a-service businesses.

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Disrupting the Gateway Services to Cybercrime

Learn how a cybercriminal ring headquartered in Vietnam built and sold tools to bypass enterprise security controls, creating hundreds of millions of phony online accounts.

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Breaking (Bad) Bots: Bot Abuse Analysis and Other Fraud Benchmarks

Deepen your understanding of the contemporary attack landscape, how GenAI and CaaS are driving a surge in attacks, and threat intelligence by industry, region, and attack type.

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Disrupting the Gateway Services to Cybercrime by Microsoft

Learn about Microsoft’s actions against Storm-1152, aimed to raise cybercriminals’ cost of doing business while protecting Microsoft customers and other online users.

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Cybercrime operation that sold millions of fraudulent Microsoft accounts disrupted

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Microsoft cracks down on group operating ‘cybercrime-as-a-service’

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Microsoft disrupts credentials marketplace, warns of gift card fraud, OAuth abuse

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Microsoft disrupts cybercrime group that created 750M+ fake accounts

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Microsoft disrupts cybercrime operation selling fraudulent accounts to notorious hacking gang

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Microsoft Disrupts Cybercrime Service That Created 750 Million Fraudulent Accounts

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Microsoft Exposes and Dismantles Cybercrime Syndicate Storm-1152

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Microsoft seizes infrastructure of top cybercrime group

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Microsoft Seizes Websites That Created 750 Million Fake Accounts

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Microsoft Takes Down Group Selling Fake Accounts to Hacking Gangs

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Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152’s Cybercrime Network

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Microsoft targets CAPTCHA-cracking bot ring allegedly responsible for 750M fake accounts

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What Is Storm-1152, Alleged Top Creator Of Fake Microsoft Accounts?