Bleeding Edge threats mirror

For the last few days Bleeding Edge Threats (Sensory Networks) has had issues with their DNS and servers. Matt Jonkman let us know that his new home, Emerging Threats, will also act as a mirror for the Bleeding Edge rules. An entry on the Emerging Threats website states:

In light of the unavailability of the Bleeding Edge Rulesets we're mirroring them over here. Will be adding a number of rules as well in the next few days. Rules will be available at the same url pattern, just use the domain emergingthreats.net. View directly here: http://www.emergingthreats.net/rules/

The primary site Bleedingthreats.com has been plauged by DNS instability and site outages. It's currently been down for days with no response from it's maintainers. Not an acceptable situation for a realtime ruleset.

We will be pushing updates to the rulesets from here, and setting up a backend to manage these rules and the new rules we'll be adding. Please feel free to send rules here or to the bleeding edge folks.

As you can see we're just getting this site online. We haven't even picked up a logo yet, or a permanent color scheme. If you want to contribute a logo, please do! All of the current efforts are going into an intelligence gathering and rule generating backend. Great progress has been made, a very interesting data stream is coming online very soon!

Our intention is not to split the ruleset, maintaining these rules is not an easy task nor does it produce revenue. We'd be just as happy had they been maintained in their original home at Bleeding Threats and the research beginning here could have contributed into that ruleset. But that's unfortunately not happening, so we'll keep them here. Bleeding Threats will likely continue to maintain a ruleset, you should stick to one set or the other.

Please send any questions to myself directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it We'll be putting up some mailing lists to hop onto shortly. You can track the news and developments via the RSS feeds available on the site left bar. Administrators will be available in the Freenode IRC room #emergingthreats, and soon in an open Jabber room.