Meet the Group-IB Editorial Team

Group-IB is committed to publishing accurate, intelligence-backed cybersecurity content for security professionals, fraud teams, and researchers.

Every article, report, and comparison published on group-ib.com is written, edited, and technically reviewed against a clear set of editorial standards. Meet the team behind it.

Content Team

Technical Review

Our editorial policy

Group-IB publishes content to help security professionals, fraud teams, and risk leaders understand the threat landscape, evaluate solutions, and make better decisions. Our editorial policy ensures everything we publish is accurate, technically sound, and useful.

Our editorial standards

Every article published on group-ib.com follows a defined editorial
and review process designed to ensure accuracy, clarity, and
technical integrity.

Written by experienced content professionals with years of cybersecurity domain knowledge.
Multi-layered fact and telemetry checks by research and technical leads to ensure that the content is definitive and meets the highest cybersecurity industry standards.
Fact-checked against primary sources — Group-IB’s own published research, verified press releases, law enforcement announcements, and named analyst reports.
Competitor claims are sourced only from the competitor’s own public materials and are framed as such.
Analyst recognitions (Gartner, KuppingerCole, Forrester) are cited with the exact report name, publication date, and required disclaimer language.
Statistics from third-party sources are attributed with a named source and a date; unverifiable or undated statistics are not published.

Our corrections process

Please contact us if you find any inaccuracies in Group-IB articles or reporting. We take corrections seriously, and if an error is confirmed, we will correct it promptly and add a dated correction note at the end of the article.


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What backs our research
Our data and intelligence sources

Unlike most cybersecurity publishers, Group-IB's editorial team has direct access to primary intelligence that does not exist anywhere else. Our research articles draw on:

Group-IB High-Tech Crime Trends Reports
Group-IB High-Tech Crime Trends Reports
Annual flagship research covering ransomware, APT activity, initial access broker markets, dark web trends, and fraud ecosystems, compiled from Group-IB’s own investigation data, not third-party aggregation.
Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform
Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform
Live data from 1M+ monitored dark web channels, criminal forums, and underground markets, updated continuously by Group-IB analysts.
1,600+ criminal investigations
1,600+ criminal investigations
Every investigation Group-IB closes with INTERPOL, Europol, and AFRIPOL adds real attacker behavior, infrastructure, and tooling back into the intelligence data lake that informs our research.
CERT-GIB incident data
CERT-GIB incident data
77,000+ hours of incident response engagements provide ground-truth data on how attacks unfold.
Regional intelligence reports
Regional intelligence reports
Regional threat intelligence published quarterly, covering attack trends specific to Asia-Pacific, Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and other regions where Group-IB Digital Crime Resistance Centers operate.

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