Cyber Threat Research Intern (Hyderabad)

SUMMARY The Cyber Threat Research Intern will play a key role in supporting threat research operations by maintaining and enriching threat data, assisting with Threat Intelligence Platform related workflows, contributing to threat detection and profiling efforts, work alongside senior researchers to identify and analyze artifacts of malicious activity, validate detection coverage, and enhance detection logic. Leveraging Aretes extensive visibility into threat actor activity, the intern will gain hands-on experience in cyber threat research, detection engineering, and operational intelligence processes. ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES - Performs structured data ingestion within Aretes Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), ensuring accuracy and consistency of threat data. This will improve threat visibility and correlations - Maintains and updates investigation requests, ensuring proper tagging, classification, and documentation - Malware profiling through correlation of artifacts from DFIR breach response engagements - Identifies data to help enhance Malware and Threat Actor profiles - Develops threat detection and profiling countermeasures - Learns and supports the creation of YARA and SentinelOne S1QL rules with guidance from TRT researchers - Submits malicious files to our automated malware analysis system to make sure we properly profile threats from our DFIR and MDR investigations - Collaborates with TRT analysts and other duties as assigned SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE - Basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts (malware, ransomware, indicators of compromise, threat hunting, digital forensics, incident response) - Familiarity with Threat Intelligence concepts such as IOCs (IPs, domains, hashes), TTPs, and MITRE ATT&CK; - Ability to perform structured data ingestion and maintain data quality within a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) - Ability to identify and research indicators of malicious activity - Familiarity with the Yara syntax to develop threat detection and pro .