August 5, 2025
5 min read
Business Wire
Searchlight Cyber unveils AI Agent to quickly summarize dark web threat actors, aiding law enforcement and cybersecurity investigations.
Searchlight Cyber Launches AI Agent for Automated Dark Web Threat Actor Summaries
PORTSMOUTH, England, August 05, 2025 – Searchlight Cyber has introduced a new AI capability within its dark web investigation platform, Cerberus, designed to automatically summarize the activity of threat actors. The Searchlight AI Agent leverages Cerberus’ extensive dark web data lake to provide concise overviews of threat actors, including their activity, conversation history, aliases, and associations. This innovation aims to help law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals rapidly identify profiles of interest and investigative leads. Criminals often use the dark web to conceal their identities, employing multiple aliases, burner accounts, and operating across various sites to obfuscate their activities. This complexity has traditionally made profiling and attributing dark web activity a manual and time-consuming task for investigators. The new Searchlight AI Agent streamlines this process by generating automated, reliable, and easily digestible summaries of threat actors based on over 15 years of accumulated dark web data. These summaries assist investigators in determining the relevance of threat actors to their investigations and uncovering new avenues for inquiry.Key Features of the Searchlight AI Agent Summary:
- Dark web post analysis: Provides an overview of the content posted by the actor and their interactions with other users, including timelines and posting patterns.
- Digital identifiers: Identifies associated email addresses, PGP keys, and handles or IDs used on messaging platforms such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Jabber, and TOX.
- Open source intelligence: Incorporates insights from trusted reports and research containing identifying information about specific actors.
- Vendor insights: Offers intelligence on sellers in dark web marketplaces, detailing goods sold, shipping and payment methods, customer feedback, and reputation. David Osler, Head of Product at Searchlight Cyber, stated:
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"We hold a huge amount of highly valuable contextual data on threat actors operating on the dark web and the new Searchlight AI Agent allows us to serve this up to customers in the most efficient way possible. This could expedite hours of investigation time that has historically been spent scouring forums, marketplaces, and encrypted chats, trying to piece together information on an actor. In seconds, analysts can now quickly determine if an actor is relevant to their area of investigation and identify new paths of inquiry."The Searchlight AI Agent is the latest in a series of AI-driven enhancements to the Cerberus platform over the past two years, which also include AI-powered language translation, thread summarization, and sentiment analysis. Searchlight Cyber collaborates closely with its customers to identify how AI can best support investigations and combat online crime.
About Searchlight Cyber
Founded in 2017, Searchlight Cyber’s mission is to prevent threat actors from operating with impunity. Its External Cyber Risk Management Platform helps organizations detect and defend against emerging cybercriminal threats through Attack Surface Management and Threat Intelligence tools that filter critical signals from noise. The platform is used by leading enterprises, government and law enforcement agencies, and Managed Security Service Providers worldwide. Learn more at www.slcyber.io.Source: Business Wire on August 5, 2025