Security Outcome
Understand threat actors and criminal activity
Searchlight gives your team direct access to over 15 years of live and archived intelligence across the clear, deep, and dark web, with the tools to investigate it: plain-language search, AI research assistance, one-click actor profiling, and graph intelligence that turns scattered activity into a clear picture. Questions about who's behind a threat get answered in minutes, not days.
The challenge
Knowing you're a target isn't the same as knowing your adversary
When a threat surfaces, the questions come fast: who is this actor, what have they done before, are we next? The answers are scattered across forums, marketplaces, and closed channels, in languages your team doesn't read, on infrastructure you can't safely visit. Most teams stitch together open-source reports and stop when the trail goes dark.
Searchlight puts the investigation in one place
The archived attacker activity, the search, the actor profiles, and the analysis tools, so your team runs investigations to a conclusion instead of a dead end.
How you gain answers
Understand the threats you're facing
Search everything, in plain language
Query Searchlight’s entire datalake with AI search: ask questions in plain English and get structured intelligence back, from point-in-time searches across fifteen years of collected activity. Multilingual translation trained on 167 million+ dark web data points covers the top ten dark web languages, and returns results across all languages simultaneously.
Profile any actor, group, or campaign in one click
Automated profiling compiles forum posts, market history, and chat data into a summary with crypto addresses, PGP keys, and messaging handles. A library of ready-made profiles on threat groups adds how and where they operate, before your investigation even starts. Graph intelligence maps who connects to whom.
Turn it into operational intelligence
Track hundreds of ransomware groups through continuously updated dashboards: tactics, known members, victims, and leaked files. Forum threads summarize with sentiment analysis, up to 140 times faster than manual reading. Findings compile into case files, and actor-specific alerts keep the investigation live.
Use cases
Built for the teams that go deeper
Threat intelligence teams
Threat intelligence teams investigate actors and track ransomware operations from aggregated dashboards, and brief leadership from compiled profiles instead of scrambling across open-source reports.
Fraud and financial crime teams
Fraud and financial crime teams investigate the actors and infrastructure behind fraud schemes, pivoting from a handle, crypto wallet, or PGP key to a full activity picture.
Incident response teams
Incident response teams can rapidly investigate activity during and after an incident, with the archive preserving evidence even after criminals delete it at the source.
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Get the full picture
Understanding the adversary to inform preemptive action
PTEM Platform by Searchlight
Actor intelligence is where Preemptive Threat Exposure Management gets its context. The same investigation capability that profiles an adversary feeds the platform's targeting picture, so knowing who's behind the activity makes every alert, every priority call, and every preemptive action better informed.
Preempt and remediate exposures first, with the only ASM that scans your clients’ entire surface every hour. Every finding is validated by a high-signal exposure engine, built and maintained by offensive researchers who discover the zero-days themselves and act as an extension of your team.
Real-world attacker context. Monitor and investigate pre-attack indicators, including leaked credentials, dark web traffic, and secure access to cybercriminal forum chatter – empowering your SOC to preempt attacks against your customers by identifying malicious activity earlier in the Cyber Kill Chain.
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FAQ
About Searchlight for security teams
Threat actors, ransomware operations, fraud infrastructure, and criminal activity across the clear, deep, and dark web: fifteen years of live and archived intelligence from forums, marketplaces, leak sites, and closed channels, searchable in plain language and preserved even after the source content is deleted.
Multilingual translation, trained on more than 167 million dark web data points, covers the top ten dark web languages including Russian criminal slang, and cross-language search returns results in all languages simultaneously. An analyst working in English investigates sources written in any of them.
One click compiles an actor's forum posts, market history, and chat data into a profile with crypto addresses, PGP keys, and messaging handles, linked to open-source research and reporting. Graph intelligence maps the connections between actors, infrastructure, and leaked data, so attribution builds from evidence instead of guesswork.
Aggregated dashboards carry in-house collected intelligence on hundreds of groups, with continuously updated tactics, known members, and victims. Set actor-specific alerts to follow a group's activity, and use Ransomware File Explorer to search leak-site file trees for compromised files, before public disclosure. Initial Access Broker listings matching your organization's profile surface preemptively on their own dashboard.
Initial Access Brokers sell footholds into organizations, VPN credentials, compromised accounts, remote access, on criminal marketplaces, often weeks before a ransomware attack uses them. Searchlight monitors these listings continuously, and any that match your organization's profile surface on a dedicated dashboard, so the earliest tradable signal of an attack reaches you while it's still just a listing.
Findings compile into individual or shared case files, forum threads summarize with sentiment analysis up to 140 times faster than manual reading, and analyst research on emerging groups and dark web trends keeps the picture current. The output is operational intelligence your team can brief, act on, and defend.
