30 Sep 2019

WebARX’s Idea of Threat Intelligence Involves Copying From the Low Quality Data of the WPScan Vulnerability Database

The phrase “threat intelligence” seems like it is becoming popular among security companies that are more focused on BSingĀ  than doing the work that threat intelligence would entail, with the results for their customers being poor (up to their customers getting unnecessarily hacked). We recently ran across a post from WebARX, which we will get to the details of in a second, but at the end of was this claim:

Threat intelligence and prevention is our main focus and thus our firewall engine is updated on a daily basis. [Read more]