Threat Intel Scraping Without Burning Your Cover or Your Stack

This article provides pragmatic guidance for teams that scrape public and adversary-run sites for threat intelligence, describing risks such as WAF blocks, baited payloads, SSRF, and proxy-related exposure, and recommending mitigations including strict egress controls, file handling in isolated zones, DNS/IP pinning, browser fingerprint controls, crawl budgets, and documented chain-of-custody and retention policies.