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Gen Digital Blog CDF

The web format of this guide reflects the most current release.  Guides for older iterations are available in PDF format.  

Integration Details

ThreatQuotient provides the following details for this integration:

Introduction

The Gen Digital Blog integration enables ThreatQ users to ingest cybersecurity research, threat intelligence insights, and security-focused articles published through the Gen Digital Insights RSS feed. The integration periodically retrieves new RSS entries and ingests them as ThreatQ Report objects. To provide additional context for analysis, each report is enriched by retrieving the associated article content and incorporating it into the report description.

By centralizing Gen Digital research within ThreatQ, analysts can efficiently monitor emerging threats, industry trends, and security developments without leaving their threat intelligence workflow.

The integration provides the following feed:

  • Gen Digital Blog Insights - retrieves posts from the Gen Digital Insights RSS feed and ingests them as enriched ThreatQ Report objects.

The integration ingests Report and Report Attribute type system objects.

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
    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.
    Ingest Category Reports Enable this parameter to ingest RSS items from the Reports category.
    Ingest Category Research Enable this parameter to ingest RSS items from the Research category.
    Ingest Category Leadership Perspectives Enable this parameter to ingest RSS items from the Leadership Perspectives category.

    Configuration Screen
  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

Gen Digital Blog Insights

The Gen Digital Blog Insights feed retrieves blog posts directly from the Gen Digital Insights RSS feed and ingests them as ThreatQ Report objects. Each report is enriched by retrieving the associated article content from the RSS item link, providing analysts with additional context and visibility into the published research.

The feed can be configured to request one or more RSS categories:

GET https://www.gendigital.com/blog/rss/v1/blogs/rss.xml/15299,15040,15041

Category RSS ID
Reports 15299
Research 15040
Leadership Perspectives 15041

Sample Response:

{
  "title": "Inside the JDownloader Supply-Chain Attack: An r77 Rootkit Bot That Kills Your Antivirus",
  "subtitle": "Malware that hid itself on infected systems and disabled antivirus protection.",
  "createdYmd": "2026-05-11",
  "timeToRead": "20",
  "authors": [
    {
      "displayName": "Threat Research Team"
    }
  ],
  "paragraphs": [
    {
      "bundle": "rich_text",
      "content": "
  Attackers replaced selected official download links...
" } ] }

ThreatQuotient provides the following default mapping for this feed based on the .posts[] array returned by the API:

Feed Data Path ThreatQ Entity ThreatQ Object Type or Attribute Key Published Date Examples Notes
.title Report.Value N/A N/A When Hotel Scams Know Your Booking: 350 Compromised Accommodations Across 50 Countries Article page title .
.link Report.Attribute Source URL N/A https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/reservation-hijack-scams-target-travelers Used to fetch the full article content and stored as the report source URL.
.guid Report.Attribute GUID N/A https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/reservation-hijack-scams-target-travelers RSS GUID is used when available; otherwise the source URL is used.
.pubDate Report.Attribute Blog Published Date published_date 2026-05-28 RSS publication date is converted to YYYY-MM-DD.
.dc:creator, .authors[].displayName Report.Attribute Author N/A Luis Corrons, Martin Chlumecký Article page authors are preferred; RSS creator is used as fallback.
.description Report.Description N/A N/A After our first report, Booking.com began warning customers... Included as the RSS summary and fallback when article content is unavailable.
.paragraphs[].content Report.Description N/A N/A N/A Article paragraphs are fetched from the source URL and rendered into the report description.
.timeToRead Report.Description N/A N/A 20 Included in the report description when available.

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 2 minutes
Reports 10
Report Attributes 40

Known Issues / Limitations

  • The Gen Digital RSS endpoint returns a maximum of 10 reports, even when all three categories are selected.

Change Log

  • Version 1.0.0
    • Initial release

PDF Guides

Document ThreatQ Version
Gen Digital Blog CDF Guide v1.0.0 5.29.0 or Greater