{
  "id": 2892622,
  "title": "I pushed the badBANANA Threat Observatory public",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/i-pushed-the-badbanana-threat-observatory-public",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-23T23:10:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/gnomeman4201/i-pushed-the-badbanana-threat-observatory-public-49e8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A long-time security enthusiast created the badBANANA Threat Observatory to address concerns about visually impressive threat maps often used in security. These maps, while impressive, sometimes mask analytical issues due to incomplete data or incorrect handling of indicators. The Observatory aims to present threat data without silently filling in gaps or presenting incomplete information. It watches various threat intelligence feeds, including CISA KEV, ThreatFox, URLhaus, and MalwareBazaar, but its primary focus is the evidence handling. The project underwent extensive audit and remediation work, ensuring that data presented is accurate and reliable. The Observatory separates various aspects of data, clearly distinguishing what the sources report, what changes between observations, what the system retains, what is rejected, what is missing or unavailable, and what cannot be proven. This distinction is prioritized over creating a visually appealing interface. The Observatory is not a replacement for an analyst but aims to provide a clearer inspection of threat data. The public release has undergone multiple audit and remediation passes, including strict handling of ThreatFox data, MalwareBazaar hash validation, spreadsheet-safe exports, deployment hardening, metadata cleanup, and independent release provenance verification. The Observatory is now available publicly at https://badbanana-threat-observatory.badbanana6969.workers.dev, with the source code hosted at https://github.com/GnomeMan4201/badBANANA-threat-observatory and the release notes at https://github.com/GnomeMan4201/badBANANA-threat-observatory/releases/tag/v1.2.0.",
  "summary": "This was one of those projects I had wanted to make for a long time, even before I had a very clear reason for it. Over the years, if you spend enough time around security, you keep seeing threat maps. A lot of them are visually impressive. They pull you in immediately. Lines moving across a globe, attacks firing in real time, counters climbing, everything looking active. But once I started…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}