Integration Details

ThreatQuotient provides the following details for this integration:

Current Integration Version	1.0.0
Compatible with ThreatQ Versions	>= 5.19.0
Support Tier	ThreatQ Supported

Introduction

The Hackread Blog CDF integration enables analysts to automatically ingest cybersecurity content from Hackread, a leading source for news, analysis, and reporting on hacking incidents, data breaches, digital privacy, and emerging cyber threats. Covering topics such as malware, dark web activity, and evolving attack trends, Hackread provides timely intelligence that helps organizations monitor the shifting threat landscape.

The integration provides the following feed:

• Hackread Blog - ingests reports and indicators parsed from blog posts.

The integration ingests the following object types:

• Indicators
• Reports
• Vulnerabilities

Installation

Perform the following steps to install the integration:

The same steps can be used to upgrade the integration to a new version.

1. Log into https://marketplace.threatq.com/.
2. Locate and download the integration yaml file.
3. Navigate to the integrations management page on your ThreatQ instance.
4. Click on the Add New Integration button.
5. Upload the integration yaml file using one of the following methods:
   • Drag and drop the file into the dialog box
   • Select Click to Browse to locate the file on your local machine

   ThreatQ will inform you if the feed already exists on the platform and will require user confirmation before proceeding. ThreatQ will also inform you if the new version of the feed contains changes to the user configuration. The new user configurations will overwrite the existing ones for the feed and will require user confirmation before proceeding.

The feed will be added to the integrations page. You will still need to configure and then enable the feed.

Configuration

ThreatQuotient does not issue API keys for third-party vendors. Contact the specific vendor to obtain API keys and other integration-related credentials.

To configure the integration:

1. Navigate to your integrations management page in ThreatQ.
2. Select the OSINT option from the Category dropdown (optional).

   If you are installing the integration for the first time, it will be located under the Disabled tab.

3. Click on the integration entry to open its details page.
4. Enter the following parameters under the Configuration tab:

   Parameter	Description
   Blog Categories	Select the top-level blog types to fetch and ingest into ThreatQ. Options include: Security Cyber Crime
   Parsed IOC Types	Select the IOC types to automatically parse from the content. Options include: CIDR Blocks CVEs Email Addresses Filenames File Paths FQDNs IP Addresses MD5 SHA-1 SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512 URLs
   Ingest CVEs As	Select the entity type to ingest CVEs as into the ThreatQ platform. Options include: Vulnerabilities (default) Indicators (type=CVE) This parameter is only accessible if the CVE option is selected for the Parsed IOC Types parameter.
   Ingest Categories As	Select the entity types to ingest the blog categories as in ThreatQ. Options include: Attributes (default) Tags (default)
   Enable SSL Certificate Verification	Enable this parameter if the feed should validate the host-provided SSL certificate.
   Disable Proxies	Enable this parameter if the feed should not honor proxies set in the ThreatQ UI.

   
   
5. Review any additional settings, make any changes if needed, and click on Save.
6. Click on the toggle switch, located above the Additional Information section, to enable it.

ThreatQ Mapping

Hackread Blog

The Hackread Blog pulls posts from Hackread's security or cyber crime categories. The full content of the posts will be parsed and ingested into ThreatQ as report objects.

GET https://hackread.com/category/security/

This request returns HTML. The HTML is parsed for the title, author, date, links, category, etc. The blog itself is then fetched.

GET https://hackread.com/{{ url-path }}

ThreatQuotient provides the following default mapping for this feed based on the information parsed out of the blog's HTML content:

Feed Data Path	ThreatQ Entity	ThreatQ Object Type or Attribute Key	Published Date	Examples	Notes
N/A	Report.Title	N/A	N/A	FBI and CISA Warn of Ghost Ransomware: A Threat to Firms Worldwide	Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Report.Description	N/A	N/A	N/A	Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	Published At	N/A	September 05, 2024	Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	Author	N/A	Deeba Ahmed	Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	Category	N/A	Security	User-Configurable. Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	External Reference	N/A	https://hackread.com/iranian-hackers-fake-job-breach-europe-industries/	Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Report.Tag	N/A	N/A	cyber-crime	User-Configurable. Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Related Report.Vulnerability/Indicator	CVE	N/A	CVE-2025-9242	User-Configurable. Parsed from the HTML
N/A	Related Report.Indicator	CIDR Block, CVE, Email Address, Filename, File Path, FQDN, IP Address, MD5, SHA-1/256/384/512, URL	N/A	CVE-2025-9242	User-Configurable. Parsed from the HTML

Average Feed Run

Object counts and Feed runtime are supplied as generalities only - objects returned by a provider can differ based on credential configurations and Feed runtime may vary based on system resources and load.

Metric	Result
Run Time	1 minute
Indicators	6
Reports	3
Report Attributes	9

Known Issues / Limitations

• The feed utilizes since and until dates to make sure entries are not re-ingested if they haven't been updated.
• If you need to ingest historical blog posts, run the feed manually by setting the since date back.
• The feed will only return at maximum, the the first 5 pages of news posts from HackRead.
• ThreatQuotient recommends running this integration every 2 days based on the publication pace of the site.  

Change Log

• Version 1.0.0
  • Initial release