Reddit Discovery

Own Your Security Narrative: Stop the Reddit Threat Before It Reaches the Boardroom

Your most significant security risk is no longer confined to the dark web or a sophisticated zero-day; it’s a single Reddit thread hitting the front page on a Monday morning. This is your Conversational Attack Surface, a sprawling, anonymous digital space where data leaks are disclosed before they’re public, vulnerabilities are demonstrated with screenshots, and threat actors openly workshop the TTPs they will use against you. Your brand monitoring tools view this as social noise, while your traditional security tools are unable to detect it, leaving you in a dangerously reactive posture. ThreatNG Reddit Discovery is the first Digital Risk Protection capability built for security leaders to manage this Narrative Risk, transforming the chaos of public chatter into a high-fidelity, early warning system so you can own the story before your adversaries do.

Gain Proactive Control Over Narrative Risk

Stop being blindsided by a crisis that was born in plain sight. Reddit Discovery gives you the unprecedented ability to see the first whispers of a threat before it escalates into a public incident. Proactively identify discussions about potential data leaks, vulnerability exploits, or insider threats, giving you the critical time needed to investigate, remediate, and control the narrative before it impacts your brand, your customers, and your stock price. This is the peace of mind that comes from moving from reactive crisis management to proactive risk dominance.

Transform Social Noise into a High-Fidelity Security Signal

Your analysts are already overwhelmed. Reddit Discovery is designed to reduce their burden, not add to it. Our key differentiator is a powerful correlation engine that automatically enriches every finding with deep intelligence from the ThreatNG platform. A mention of a data leak is instantly cross-referenced with our DarCache Rupture repository to validate compromised credentials. Chatter about a software flaw is checked against our DarCache KEV catalog to confirm if it's an actively exploited vulnerability. This process eliminates false positives and delivers only contextualized, actionable alerts, freeing your team to focus on mitigating genuine threats.

Turn Their Open Forum into Your Early Warning System

Threat actors use Reddit as a collaborative space to plan their next attack, hiding in plain sight. ThreatNG Reddit Discovery is your intelligence operative inside their world. We provide your threat hunters with unparalleled insight into adversary intent, enabling them to identify emerging TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) and weaknesses in your defenses before they are exploited. By turning their open forum into your early warning system, you can shift "left of boom" and fundamentally strengthen your security posture against the threats of tomorrow.

ThreatNG Reddit Discovery: Frequently Asked Questions

The Basics: Understanding the Capability

ThreatNG Reddit Discovery is a security-first, strategic intelligence capability designed to monitor the community platform Reddit for threats against your organization. It is not a marketing or social listening tool. Instead of tracking sentiment, it actively searches for indicators of risk related to your brand, data, and infrastructure, transforming unstructured public chatter into actionable, contextualized security alerts.
While the dark web is critical for tracking the sale of exploits and data, Reddit is often where these threats are born and refined in the open. With over 73 million daily active users, Reddit has become a leading indicator for major security events. Data breaches are frequently discussed by researchers and users on subreddits like r/databreach days or even weeks before they are officially disclosed. Threat actors openly workshop tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), such as how to bypass specific security tools or move laterally after gaining VPN access. Monitoring Reddit shifts your posture from reactive to proactive, enabling you to identify threats before they are fully weaponized.
No, this is a common and dangerous misconception. Brand monitoring tools are built for marketing departments to measure sentiment. They can tell you if people are talking about you, but they cannot tell you what it means for your security risk.
A brand tool might see a spike in mentions of your login page as "negative sentiment." ThreatNG Reddit Discovery sees the same chatter and automatically correlates it with our intelligence repositories to ask critical security questions:
- Does this chatter correspond to a new batch of compromised credentials in our DarCache Rupture repository?
- Is there a known, actively exploited vulnerability in your tech stack listed in our DarCache KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) catalog?
- Are threat actors discussing a new phishing campaign targeting your brand?
Your current tools see social noise; Reddit Discovery isolates the security signal.

The Value Proposition: How This Makes Your Life Better

As a CISO, you are responsible for managing enterprise-wide information risk, and that now includes the court of public opinion. Reddit Discovery makes your life better in three key ways:
- It Gives You Control of the Narrative: You will never again be blindsided by a CEO or board member forwarding you a link to a Reddit thread about a security flaw you've never seen. It provides the early warning needed to get ahead of a public crisis.
- It Provides Board-Level Answers: When leadership asks, "Are you aware of this?" you can provide a confident, data-driven assessment instead of scrambling to respond.
- It Delivers Peace of Mind: It reduces the fear of the "unknown unknown" by providing visibility into a critical, unmonitored attack surface, allowing you to manage "Narrative Risk" before it causes financial or reputational damage.
On the contrary, Reddit Discovery is explicitly designed to reduce analyst burnout. A raw feed of Reddit mentions would be useless. The power of this capability lies in its automated correlation engine. An alert from Reddit Discovery is more than just a link to a post; it is a high-fidelity, contextualized event enriched with intelligence from the entire ThreatNG platform. This process filters out the noise, ensuring your team only spends time on genuine, validated threats, which frees them up to focus on what truly matters.
Reddit Discovery provides early warnings for a wide range of external threats, including:
- Impending Data Breaches: Identifying chatter about compromised data on subreddits, which is then automatically validated against our DarCache Rupture repository to confirm if the credentials are new and legitimate.
- Zero-Day Vulnerability Discussions: Uncovering technical discussions where users detail replicable steps to exploit a flaw in your software or infrastructure.
- Threat Actor TTPs: Gaining intelligence on how adversaries are planning to attack assets within your technology stack.
- Insider Threats: Detecting posts from potentially disgruntled employees or former contractors discussing internal security lapses or proprietary information.
- Phishing Campaign Planning: Identifying the creation of lookalike domains or the discussion of social engineering tactics targeting your employees or customers.

The Mechanics: How It Works

An alert from Reddit Discovery is the starting point, not the end point. When a mention of your organization, domain, or other specified term is detected, it is immediately and automatically cross-referenced with the entire ThreatNG intelligence ecosystem to provide critical context. A single, seemingly innocent post can trigger a cascade of automated cross-correlation checks.
For example, depending on the content of a Reddit post, it could be checked against:
- Data Leak & Credential Exposure: A post mentioning "your company's data" is instantly checked against DarCache Rupture to validate compromised credentials, the Dark Web Presence module to see if it's part of a larger breach for sale, and Online Sharing Exposure to check for related data on Pastebin or GitHub Gist.
- Vulnerability & Exploit Intelligence: Chatter about a software flaw is correlated with DarCache Vulnerability (including KEV, EPSS, and PoC exploits) to assess real-world risk, and the Technology Stack module to confirm if the vulnerable technology is part of your known external footprint.
- Brand & Reputational Risk: A user complaining about business practices is cross-referenced with DarCache ESG for potential violations and the Sentiment and Financials module to link the chatter with lawsuits, layoff discussions, or negative news.
- Phishing & Impersonation: A mention of a suspicious lookalike site is checked against the Domain Intelligence module (specifically Domain Name Permutations), Certificate Intelligence to analyze fraudulent SSL certificates, and IP Intelligence to investigate the malicious hosting infrastructure.
- Sensitive Data & Code Exposure: A post containing what appears to be an internal API key is correlated with the Sensitive Code Exposure module to determine if it matches keys found in public code repositories, and with the Mobile Application Discovery module to check if it was leaked from one of your mobile apps.
- Cloud & SaaS Misconfigurations: A discussion of accessible file servers is conducted against the Cloud and SaaS Exposure module to identify open cloud buckets or risks associated with sanctioned SaaS services, such as Salesforce, Okta, or Azure Active Directory.
This automated enrichment provides the critical context needed to validate a threat in real-time, something no standalone social listening tool can do.
Implementation is straightforward. Since ThreatNG operates from an external, unauthenticated perspective, it does not require the installation of complex agents or connectors. The process involves defining the digital assets you want to protect within the ThreatNG platform. This includes your primary domains, key brand names, executive names, and any other specific terms relevant to your organization. Reddit Discovery is an integrated module, not a separate product, ensuring a seamless experience.