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Almost every threat intelligence MCP is built for cyber. Ours connects Claude, Copilot or your own AI agent to verified, real-world physical threat data.

Every report that comes into Crowd Threat is checked by a person before it becomes data. We sat down with Sophia Birks, our first Crowd Intelligence Analyst, to talk about her background, what verification looks like day to day, and why the crowd sees what others miss.

Every company is a bet on how the future unfolds. AI isn't just a trend inside the threat intelligence industry: it's dissolving the profitable middle of it, leaving verified data and its certification as the only two durable assets by 2031.

Ukraine and Russia this past week weren't just a front-line story: Crowd Threat's reporting shows two campaigns running in parallel. Russia sustained near-nightly drone and missile alerts across almost every Ukrainian oblast, while Ukraine ran a sustained deep-strike campaign against Russian refineries and logistics infrastructure hundreds of kilometres from the front, including an explosive incident inside Moscow itself, a departure from where this war has typically been fought.

Over the past week, southern Lebanon has seen a steady drumbeat of Israeli military activity: persistent surveillance drone flights, near-daily strikes on Aali Et Taher Heights in Nabatieh, and a systematic campaign of structure demolitions across Bint Jbeil villages, alongside scattered arson incidents and at least one direct clash with unidentified gunmen. This isn't a one-off spike: it lines up with the unraveling of the US-brokered Iran ceasefire, under which Israel was expected to withdraw from Lebanon but instead stayed on through a separate side arrangement aimed at countering Hezbollah. With that broader deal effectively dead, south Lebanon looks less like a quiet enforcement zone and more like the place where the fallout is actually landing, worth watching closely in the days ahead.

As this piece was being written, Paris was burning again. Last night, PSG beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest to win the Champions League final. By the time the final whistle blew, French authorities had pre-deployed 22,000 police officers across the country (8,000 in Paris alone) because they already knew, from last year's identical episode, what was coming. It came anyway. More than 780 people were detained nationwide, up 32% on 2025. Fifty-seven officers were wounded. The Champs-Élysées was barricaded. A group attempted to storm a police station. Metro stations were shut, tram lines halted, bus routes suspended.

Studying intelligence, security, politics or defence at university? Earn real money reporting verified threats with Crowd Threat, flexible, remote, and built for people who already know how to read the world.

We are excited to introduce Sujith, an experienced OSINT Investigator and Fact-Checker from India, highlights how Crowd Threat serves as a vital bridge for beginners entering the intelligence industry.ikel, one of the Crowd Threat founding contributors shaping the intelligence ecosystem within our Crowd community. Mikel brings a unique blend of expertise and insight to the critical work of crowdsourcing threats

We are excited to introduce Mikel, one of the Crowd Threat founding contributors shaping the intelligence ecosystem within our Crowd community. Mikel brings a unique blend of expertise and insight to the critical work of crowdsourcing threats

The increasing sophistication of AI, particularly in generating believable fake news, threatens the internet's role as an objective source of information, posing a significant crisis for intelligence and security professionals.

This series will start with these major players, outlining their value for high-level monitoring. In future posts, we will dive deeper, breaking down the best local media sources country by country. Below is the list of the top 50 English language news websites in the world based on monthly visits.

To guarantee the reliability of our crowdsourced threat platform, we use a multi-layered process that begins with mandatory training for every reporter. This system combines powerful verification tools with a trust-based model to vet all data, ethically reward contributors, and provide a far more complete picture than automated data scraping.

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