Company
Date Published
Author
Thomas Kinsella
Word count
1125
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

TinesBot is an automation tool within the Tines platform designed to streamline the sharing of threat intelligence indicators by automating the retrieval, analysis, and dissemination of these indicators from various sources such as Pastebin, URLHaus, and Malshare, among others. By leveraging tools like IOC Parser, TinesBot refines and enriches this data, sharing it with platforms like VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, and Netcraft, thus alleviating the manual, time-consuming process traditionally involved in threat intelligence sharing. The automation not only reduces errors but also ensures that crucial threat indicators are more readily accessible to the infosec community, enhancing the ability of security professionals to detect and prevent attacks. TinesBot's operations highlight the collaborative nature of the security community, which relies on shared data to build better defenses against evolving threats.