Faraz Ali

Faraz is an APT Analyst within Group-IB‘s META Threat Intelligence department, where he investigates state-sponsored cyber operations targeting the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa, from uncovering novel toolsets and mapping adversary infrastructure to dissecting the tactics, techniques, and procedures that define today’s most sophisticated threat actors. His research feeds directly into the threat actor profiles and strategic intelligence that organizations across the region rely on to prioritise their defences.

With over five years of experience spanning security operations, threat detection, and advanced threat intelligence, Faraz brings a rare combination of hands-on operational depth and analytical rigour to attribution, linking infrastructure, code reuse, and operational habits to connect campaigns back to the actors behind them. His work has contributed to the exposure of previously unreported threat actor capabilities, the expansion of known adversary targeting profiles, and the production of actionable intelligence that enables defenders to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.