Threat intelligence for financial services, callable from code

The clock starts before you have read the reporting

Financial services is the sector where the gap between an incident becoming public and someone senior asking about it is measured in hours. A supplier is named on a leak site, a file transfer product gets a critical CVE, a peer institution is breached, and the questions arrive from 3 directions at once: does this touch us, is it material, and what are we telling the regulator.

Answering that means reading the same story across 20 outlets, 3 vendor writeups and an advisory, then working out whether any of it maps to your estate or your supplier list. Firms with a dedicated intelligence function spend their day on the collection rather than the analysis. Firms without one spend it on the wrong incidents.

ThreatCluster does the collection and deduplication before you open it, filtered to what you actually run, and the same records are queryable from your own code.

Why the sector needs its own view

Supplier concentration is regulated

Core banking platforms, payment processors, market data providers and managed IT sit behind large parts of the industry at once. Under DORA and the UK critical third parties regime, your oversight of those providers is examinable, and finding out from the press that one of them has been breached is not a defensible position.

Mass exploitation by proxy

Extortion groups have repeatedly built campaigns around a single file transfer or edge product, then worked through every organisation running it. Financial firms are overrepresented in the results because of the volume of regulated data moved between counterparties.

Customers are attack surface

Phishing kits, lookalike domains, fraudulent apps and credential markets targeting your brand are an intelligence problem before they are a fraud problem. Most CTI programmes treat this as a separate discipline and lose the connection between the two.

Opportunistic to state-directed

Ransomware and initial access brokers dominate by volume. Alongside them sit North Korean operations against crypto and fintech for revenue, and hacktivist DDoS campaigns against banks timed to geopolitical events. These need different responses and are frequently conflated in general reporting.

Short disclosure clocks

Materiality determinations under SEC rules, incident classification under DORA, and 72-hour notifications under NYDFS all assume you already know what happened and to whom. That work starts with knowing the incident exists.

What the data gives a financial services team

One record per incident

Density-based semantic clustering groups every source covering the same event into a single record with a sourced timeline, extracted entities, IOCs and MITRE ATT&CK mapping. Roughly 900 articles a day become around 70 clusters. You read the incident once, or pull it as JSON.

Scoped to your environment

Filter to financial services, to your named suppliers and counterparties, and to the vendors and platforms you run. Delivered over the API, or by email, Slack, Teams and RSS. Nothing else reaches you.

Third-party monitoring

Track your core platform providers, payment processors, outsourced IT and material suppliers as watched entities. Leak-site postings and breach reporting against them reach you the day they appear, which is the evidence your operational resilience function is being asked for.

Exploitation status

Confirmed in-the-wild exploitation is separated from the rest of the vulnerability queue. That distinction is what carries an emergency change through a change advisory board without a week of argument.

Indicators you can load

IOCs are filtered hard before publication rather than passed through, and exported in the formats your SIEM, TIP or firewall already reads.

Reporting ready to send

Scheduled briefings and generated reports are written to be forwarded to a risk committee, an auditor or a regulator without a rewrite in between.

Over the API

The sector's threat picture is a query, not a portal. Pull scored incident records mentioning the financial sector:

curl -H "X-API-Key: $TC_KEY" \
  "https://threatcluster.io/api/public/v1/threats?keyword=financial"

Or the ransomware leak-site victims posted in the sector, from our own Tor collection:

curl -H "X-API-Key: $TC_KEY" \
  "https://threatcluster.io/api/public/v1/darkweb/ransomware/victims?sector=Financial%20Services"

The same keyword filter works for a named supplier, a counterparty or a product in your estate, so the supplier-oversight check your resilience function runs by hand becomes a scheduled job. Every endpoint is in the OpenAPI spec, and the free key covers every read scope: incidents, IOCs, entities, vulnerabilities and dark web.

The public feeds and IOC blocklist need no key or account at all. Allowances and paid tiers are on the pricing page.

Running in an afternoon

1. Mint a free key and make the first call. Sign up, no card, and query the sector or your supplier list from the terminal in a minute.
2. Tell it what you run. Vendors, platforms, suppliers, sector. Takes a few minutes in the setup wizard, and scopes both the web feed and your alerts.
3. Wire the outputs in. IOC exports to the SIEM, hunt queries to the analysts, API pulls into your own tooling, reports into the risk pack.

Hosted platform. No agents, no appliance, and none of your telemetry leaves your environment, because we do not ingest it.

Evidence for the regimes you are examined against

Financial services carries more explicit threat intelligence obligations than any other sector, and most of them expect a demonstrable, current process rather than a subscription.

DORA (EU)

ICT risk management, third-party oversight, incident classification, and threat-led penetration testing under TIBER-EU.

FCA and PRA (UK)

Operational resilience: impact tolerances, important business services, and CBEST for in-scope firms.

SEC disclosure rules (US)

8-K Item 1.05 within 4 business days of a materiality determination.

NYDFS Part 500

72-hour notification and continuous monitoring expectations.

GLBA Safeguards Rule

Plus FFIEC examination guidance.

PCI DSS 4.0

For cardholder environments.

ISO 27001 Annex A 5.7

Threat intelligence as a named control.

ThreatCluster is the monitoring and evidence layer underneath these. It does not make you compliant. It produces the dated, sourced record an examiner asks for, including the audit trail showing when a supplier incident first reached your team.

Questions we get from financial services buyers

What we are tracking in the sector right now

Every incident here is drawn from live clustering. The financial services entity page carries the full history: active clusters, associated threat groups, and the most recent reporting, updated continuously.

See live financial services threat activity