Integration Details

Current Integration Version	1.0.0
Compatible with ThreatQ Versions	>= 5.5.0
Support Tier	ThreatQ Supported

Introduction

The Arstechnica CDF allows analysts to automatically ingest blog posts from the Arstechnica blog, https://arstechnica.com/security/, ensuring they remain informed on the latest news, vulnerabilities, and other cybersecurity-related publications.

The integration provides the following feed:

• Arstechnica Security – fetches, parses, and ingests blog posts from the Arstechnica Security site.

The integration ingests the following object types:

• Indicator
• Report
• Vulnerability

Installation

Perform the following steps to install the integration:

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
   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.
   Parsed IOC Types	Select the IOC types you would like to automatically parse from the content. The only option available at this time is CVE.
   Ingest CVEs As	Select the entity type to ingest CVE IDs as into the ThreatQ platform. Options include: Vulnerabilities (default) Indicators  This parameter is only accessible if the CVE option is selected for the Parsed IOC Types parameter.

   
   
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

Arstechnica Security

The Arstechnica Security feed periodically pulls threat intel blog posts from the Arstechnica Security blog feed and ingests them into ThreatQ as Report Objects.

GET https://arstechnica.com/security

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

GET https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/{{ uri }}

ThreatQuotient provides the following default mapping for this feed:

Feed Data Path	ThreatQ Entity	ThreatQ Object Type or Attribute Key	Published Date	Examples	Notes
N/A	Report.Title	Report	Parsed from HTML	Ukrainian cellular and Internet still out, 1 day after suspected Russian cyberattack	Parsed from HTML
N/A	Report.Description	N/A	N/A	N/A	Parsed from HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	External Reference	Parsed from HTML	https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/ukrainian-cells-and-internet-still-out-1-day-after-suspected-russian-cyberattack/	Parsed from HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	Published At	Parsed from HTML	12/13/2023, 8:33 PM	Parsed from HTML
N/A	Report.Attribute	Author	Parsed from HTML	Dan Goodin	Parsed from HTML
N/A	Related Indicator/Vulnerability.Value	CVE/Vulnerability	Parsed from HTML	CVE-2023-41232	Parsed from HTML. Ingested according to Ingest CVEs As

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	1
Reports	8
Report Attributes	24

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.

Change Log

• Version 1.0.0
  • Initial release