Cyber threat intelligence, investigation, and enforcement — built for organizations, registrars, CERTs, and security teams who need more than a generic security product.
Karen IT is a cyber threat intelligence and investigation company based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. We build the infrastructure, tools, and expertise that organizations, law enforcement agencies, and internet security stakeholders use to detect, investigate, and disrupt digital threats.
We do not sell generic security products. We do specialist work — the kind that requires a team that has operated in real incidents, real investigations, and real enforcement actions. Our clients include financial institutions, technology companies, domain registrars, internet registries, and government entities.
We operate our own CTI platform that scans, indexes, and analyzes malicious infrastructure at scale. Our Domain Blocklist (DBL) is used in production by Quad9 — one of the world's largest privacy-focused DNS resolvers. Our URLAbuse platform gives the community a free, open feed of verified malicious URLs.
We investigate the actors behind cyber attacks — tracing phishing campaigns to their infrastructure, mapping threat actor operations, and building the evidentiary record that enables action. Our digital forensics capability handles evidence collection and analysis to legal standards.
We manage the full enforcement process — from identifying malicious domains and phishing infrastructure to executing takedowns with registrars, hosting providers, and platforms globally. 500K+ completed. 98.4% success rate.
KSRC — our Security Response Center — provides structured incident response for organizations under active attack, alongside our phishing and malware reporting infrastructure used by the broader security community.
That conviction shapes everything we build and everything we do. Our CTI platform, our blocklist infrastructure, our investigation capability, and our enforcement services are all designed to shift the operational advantage away from threat actors and toward defenders.
We measure our work in outcomes: threats neutralized, infrastructure taken down, investigations completed. The internet is not a static problem. Neither are we.
We say what we actually think — to each other, to clients, and in our reports. If the evidence doesn't support a conclusion, we say so.
In threat intelligence, in forensics, in investigation — imprecision has consequences. We care about getting things right, not just getting things done.
Everything we build is oriented toward one goal: making it harder to run cybercrime operations and easier to get caught.
Trust is built through consistent, documented, honest work — not through marketing claims or credentials alone.
We are direct with clients and with each other. Disagreements happen in the open. Decisions get explained.
Threat actors evolve. The internet changes. We can't stop learning — and the best work here comes from people who are genuinely interested in how things work.
From the moment a malicious domain is registered, through active campaign operation, to attribution, takedown, and investigation — Karen IT operates at every stage.
Internal threat intelligence platform for scanning, analyzing, and investigating malicious URLs and infrastructure at scale.
Rapid, structured response to active compromises — from triage through containment, eradication, and recovery, via KSRC.
Forensic analysis of digital evidence to legal standards — disk, memory, network, and log analysis with chain-of-custody documentation.
Tracing cyber attacks to their source — threat actor attribution, infrastructure mapping, and law enforcement referral support.
Detecting and disrupting phishing campaigns targeting your organization — including infrastructure takedown and actor intelligence.
Identification and removal of domains and services impersonating your brand. 98.4% success rate. Average three days to removal.
Static and dynamic analysis of malware samples — behavioral profiling, C2 infrastructure mapping, and full IOC documentation.
AI-powered detection of unauthorized content use across the web and social platforms, with DMCA takedown filing and removal coordination.
We're always looking for security researchers, analysts, and engineers who want to work on problems that actually matter.
We don't resell third-party products. The tools, feeds, and platforms we use to protect our clients are built and operated by Karen IT — giving us full control over quality, speed, and integration.
Community-based URL reporting and threat intelligence feed. 760K+ verified malicious URLs. Free and open to the public.
urlabuse.com →Continuously updated feed of malicious domains — used in production by Quad9 to protect millions of DNS queries daily.
dbl.urlabuse.com →Karen IT Security Response Center — incident reporting, response coordination, and the operational hub for our security community.
ksrc.karenit.net →Our internal threat intelligence platform — scanning, indexing, and analyzing malicious infrastructure. The backbone of our detection capability.
Learn more →Karen IT Threat Sharing Community — a managed MISP instance for structured threat intelligence sharing with vetted partners.
Learn more →Curated repository of real phishing kits collected in the wild — for security researchers, CERTs, and anti-phishing teams.
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Whether you need investigation support, incident response, threat intelligence access, or enforcement assistance — contact us to discuss your situation. We will tell you directly whether we can help and what that looks like.