Threat Feed Aggregator

The problem

Monitoring cybersecurity threats requires manually checking multiple news outlets, leading to duplicate reading and fragmented reporting. Scaling a daily threat brief is difficult when sources use different formats like RSS, Atom, and unstructured HTML.

What it does

• Aggregates live security news from The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, and The Register.
• Scrapes threatline.io via regex to capture additional linked intelligence.
• Normalizes and deduplicates URLs to ensure each story appears only once in your briefing.
• Generates outputs in plain text for human reading or JSON for machine-readable pipelines.
• Filters results by minimum title length to ensure high-signal content.

Frameworks & tools

Python 3, standard libraries (urllib), and regex for scraping.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Writing a prompt to summarize news often results in hallucinations or outdated info. This tool fetches live data directly from the sources and handles the specific technical nuances of URL normalization and RSS/Atom parsing that LLMs cannot do natively without a pre-built script.

Use cases

• Generate a daily morning briefing for a Security Operations Center (SOC) team.
• Feed clean JSON data into a custom dashboard or internal threat intelligence platform.
• Automate a cybersecurity newsletter by collecting the latest industry links.

Known limitations

Threatline.io integration relies on regex scraping and may fail if their HTML structure changes. The deduplication engine is best-effort and relies on URL normalization.