TORRANCE, Calif., Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Criminal IP appoints Reconn as Distributor for threat intelligence and attack surface management solutions across the Middle East and Africa region. Developed by AI SPERA, Criminal IP provides decision-ready threat intelligence, and AI-powered attack surface management solutions to security teams worldwide with integrations across leading SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms.
MSSPs, SOC teams, threat analysts, and security operations centers across the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa will gain access to Criminal IP’s threat intelligence and attack surface management capabilities—including real-time IP intelligence, domain scanning, OSINT data, and dark web monitoring.
Regional security teams face unique challenges: advanced threat actors targeting their infrastructure, complex cloud and hybrid deployments that are difficult to monitor, and regulatory mandates from central banks requiring visibility into external threats. Criminal IP’s continuous global IP scanning across 4.29 billion addresses help teams detect threats targeting their assets earlier. The platform tracks threat actors, identifies C2 servers, and surfaces leaked credentials before attacks happen, reducing the time between threat detection and response.
Criminal IP already operates in over 150 countries and has integrated with more than 40 cybersecurity platforms including PaloAlto, Fortinet, OpenCTI, Wazuh, and more. The Reconn partnership extends into the Middle East and Africa region, where demand for threat intelligence and attack surface management is accelerating.
“Every SOC and MSSP we talk to in the region faces the same problem: they need to see threats coming at them from outside their network,” said Shenoy Sandeep, Founder of Reconn. “Criminal IP’s continuous IP and domain scanning cover gaps that traditional security tools miss. This partnership lets us bring that capability to our customers helping them detect threats before attacks happen, respond faster, and actually know what they’re defending. The regional threat landscape is specific. Criminal IP delivers both the global scale and regional relevance our teams need. Combined with our implementation support and compliance training, we can accelerate threat intelligence adoption across MEA.” “We see the Middle East and Africa as a strategically important region where organizations are increasingly looking for greater visibility into external threats and their expanding attack surfaces,” said Byungtak Kang, CEO of AI SPERA. “Our partnership with Reconn combines Criminal IP’s global threat intelligence and attack surface management capabilities with Reconn’s strong regional expertise and customer network. Together, we aim to make actionable threat intelligence more accessible to security teams across the region and help them identify exposure, understand threats in context, and respond before those threats become incidents.”
The regional footprint Reconn operates in positions Criminal IP to serve customers in markets where central banks now require visibility into external threats and attack surface exposure as part of cyber governance mandates (CBUAE, SAMA, DFSA, CBN, BRSA, NCA-ECC).
Reconn will provide end-to-end support for Criminal IP deployments, including integration with existing SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms, sales engineering for proof-of-concepts, training on threat intelligence, and ongoing technical support.
Criminal IP’s Threat Intelligence (TI) equips security teams with Decision-Ready Threat Intelligence needed to proactively identify, analyze, and respond to emerging threats. Powered by AI and OSINT, it delivers threat scoring, reputation data, and real-time detection of a wide array of malicious indicators, ranging from C2 servers and IOCs to masking services like VPNs, proxies, and anonymous VPNs, across IPs, domains, and URLs. Its API-first architecture ensures seamless integration into security workflows to boost visibility, automation, and response.
Criminal IP’s Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform delivers a threat intelligence-powered approach to attack surface management by combining continuous asset discovery with deep threat analysis across IPs, domains, OSINT, and associated infrastructure. Built on Criminal IP’s advanced scanning and enrichment capabilities, it brings Threat Intelligence context such as vulnerability intelligence, C2 detections, malicious IP/domain correlations, and dark web exposure into every layer of asset discovery in an integrated approach that empowers security teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and mitigate threats before they are exploited.
Organizations in the Middle East and Africa interested in evaluating Criminal IP can access the free threat intelligence search engine at search.criminalip.io or contact Reconn for a demonstration, attack surface assessment, and regional implementation planning.
About Criminal IP
Criminal IP is a cyber threat intelligence and ASM solution operated by AI SPERA that provides decision-ready threat intelligence, and AI-powered attack surface management solutions to security teams worldwide. By continuously scanning the global internet, Criminal IP aggregates and contextualizes threat signals across IPs, domains, URLs, and attack infrastructure, covering malicious indicators, known vulnerabilities, exposed assets, and attacker behavior. Criminal IP’s mission is to give organizations real visibility into their cyber landscape and accelerate threat detection and response by delivering the intelligence needed to outsmart attackers. For more information, visit https://www.criminalip.io
About Reconn
Reconn is a Dubai-based AI-first cybersecurity solutions distributor enabling enterprise-focused startups and regional new entrants to establish market presence, build customer relationships, and scale go-to-market operations in the Middle East and Africa. A preferred and trusted partner for many top customers across the region, Reconn specializes in AI Security, Agentic AI, AI Governance, Threat Intelligence, Offensive Security, and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC). Reconn provides technology distribution, strategic go-to-market advisory, professional services, and PECB-certified training on Artificial Intelligence, ISO 42001, ISO 27001, and related compliance frameworks. More information: https://www.reconn.io
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