Look up an IOC (IP, domain, URL, or file hash) across threat intelligence sources. Uses AbuseIPDB, VirusTotal, and OTX AlienVault with weighted confidence scoring.
AI agents call threat_intel to retrieve information from Mcp Services without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool performs read-only lookups against third-party threat intelligence databases. It retrieves and scores existing threat data but does not modify, delete, execute code, or trigger external actions. The weighted confidence scoring is post-processing of retrieved data. This is a classic Read category tool with low severity due to its informational nature and no blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Look[s] up' IOCs across threat intelligence sources (AbuseIPDB, VirusTotal, OTX AlienVault), which is a retrieval and query operation with no side effects.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Look up an IOC (IP, domain, URL, or file hash) across threat intelligence sources. Uses AbuseIPDB, VirusTotal, and OTX AlienVault with weighted confidence scoring. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Services MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Services MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for threat_intel: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp Services. Nothing to install.
threat_intel is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the threat_intel rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for threat_intel. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
threat_intel is provided by the Mcp Services MCP server (san-npm/mcp-services). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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