Intel 471 Inc.

Intel 471 is a privately held cybersecurity company specializing in cyber threat intelligence. The company's core mission is to protect organizations, their products, assets, and personnel from cybercriminals by providing insights into the cyber underground. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, Intel 471 leverages a combination of human intelligence and automated collection to deliver actionable threat intelligence to its clients.

The company offers a suite of intelligence products including adversary intelligence, malware intelligence, credential intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, fraud intelligence, cyber geopolitical intelligence, and threat hunt intelligence. Its flagship platform, Verity471, launched in 2025, transforms adversary tradecraft into pre-attack intelligence and supports proactive threat hunting. Intel 471 focuses on infiltrating closed sources where threat actors collaborate and plan cyberattacks, providing its services to enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations globally.

In recent developments, Intel 471 expanded its Verity471 platform in July 2026 with new AI capabilities, MCP471 and Agent471, designed to enhance the accessibility and operationalization of threat intelligence. The company's 2026 annual threat report, released in February 2026, highlighted a significant 63% increase in extortion breaches in 2025, anticipating continued high activity. Jason Passwaters serves as the CEO and co-founder, with Michael DeBolt as President and Chief Intelligence Officer. Intel 471 is backed by a strategic growth investment from private equity firm Thoma Bravo.