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What’s New
Author Profiles help you pivot from a single forum or chat message post to a full behavioral view of an actor across our illicit communities dataset.
And now, with just one click, you can generate an AI-powered summary that captures how they operate, so you can understand the threat faster and act with confidence.
You’ll now see a “Summarize” button inside every Author Profile. Clicking it generates a high-level AI summary of that author’s recent activity across Flashpoint’s Communities, our deep collections of primary-source data from illicit forums, messaging platforms, and paste sites.
The summary includes:
- Key behavioral themes and discussion trends
- Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Top authors and sites associated with the actor
- Source-linked citations with one-click pivots to Collections
It’s a quick, credible way to assess who the actor is, what they’re discussing, and how they’re operating, without manually reviewing dozens of posts.
Why It Matters
Tracking threat actors is a time-intensive process. Analysts often start with a single alias and then spend hours combing through posts to spot trends, verify identity, or understand motives.
Author Profiles help accelerate this process by consolidating all known activity tied to a specific alias. But even then, manually reading each post takes time, and that’s where AI comes in.
With AI Summarization for Author Profiles, you can:
- Instantly grasp an actor’s recent activity and behavioral patterns
- Cut down the manual effort of reading and categorizing posts.
- Stay in your workflow and reduce context-switching.
- Validate findings with full transparency and source links.
We’re applying AI to this dataset because actor communication is one of the richest and most rapidly evolving intelligence signals we collect. Summarizing it helps analysts focus faster, triage smarter, and pivot earlier in the threat lifecycle.
How It Works
- Open any post in Communities.
- Click the author’s name and select “View Author’s Profile”.
- Click “Summarize” at the top of the profile.
- Your AI-generated summary will appear instantly, with references, pivots, and context built in.
