New Product Release
In today’s fast-moving cybersecurity landscape, traditional perimeter defenses fall short on multiple fronts; static blocklists, periodic security updates and reactive measures are no longer enough. Modern threat actors have industrialized their operations, leveraging disposable proxy networks, distributed botnets, and specialized infrastructure providers to blend seamlessly into legitimate internet traffic. To stay ahead of these evolving tactics, security teams need actionable and real-time threat intelligence to stop malicious traffic before it impacts business-critical systems.
We are excited to announce our newest product release, IP Intelligence, a solution designed to match the fast-moving and dynamic threat landscape. Delivering high-confidence, continuously updated feeds of known malicious IP addresses, it can help defend against critical threats, including credential stuffing, malware uploads, port scanning, pre-attack reconnaissance, anonymous proxies and DDoS attack.
IP Intelligence has long served as an integral engine behind Mastercard Threat Protection, helping identify and block malicious activity before it reaches critical applications and infrastructure. Today, we are bringing these powerful capabilities directly to more organizations, with the mission to enhance their broader security stack: IP Intelligence can be deployed for dynamic blocklisting, act as a tool for forensic analysis and enable threat hunting.
Why Modern Cyber Threats Require Dynamic Threat Feeds
A trend has emerged where threat actors use covert networks of compromised devices to carry out cyber attacks. Attackers across the globe are relying on shared, highly dynamic infrastructure to obfuscate their activities, and funnel malicious traffic through compromised IoT devices and commercial proxy pipelines, blending directly into everyday consumer noise.
Modern threat infrastructure is frequently provisioned, rotated, and managed at scale as a service. IP addresses used for scanning, access validation, or exploitation are rapidly reassigned or discarded to evade legacy detection rules.
In an ecosystem where threat infrastructure shifts hourly, static defenses become obsolete almost immediately: an IP address used for an attack today could be clean tomorrow, and vice versa. Without dynamic threat feeds updated continuously, organizations remain blind to new proxy nodes, rapid-rotation botnets, and ongoing perimeter scanning.
IP Intelligence in Action: Spotting the Signal in the Noise
During a major seasonal sale, a global e-commerce distributor noticed a 20% spike in web traffic toward their customer portal. Standard WAF rules registered no blatant exploits, and the traffic originated from residential ISP addresses across multiple regions, appearing, at first glance, like regular consumer browsing.
Luckily, the company had integrated the IP Intelligence feed into their SIEM for automated log correlation. Within minutes, high-confidence alerts fired, as IP Intelligence began flagging a cluster of suspicious IPs that were recently observed conducting automated brute force attacks across several European countries.
The SOC team immediately identified the covert credential stuffing attempts. By enforcing the IP Intelligence feed at the WAF level, they automatically mitigated the malicious traffic with zero impact on real shoppers, preventing account takeovers before a breach occurred. Success!
Take Control of Your Perimeter Today
IP Intelligence can help turn vast, chaotic data streams of malicious activity into a frictionless, protective shield, ensuring that your digital doors are slammed shut when a known threat approaches.
Interested in seeing how IP Intelligence can protect your network against modern threats? Read more here.
