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以下内容由 GitRead 中文社区 编辑团队基于项目 README 与官方资料整理, 结合中文开发者的常见使用场景补充技术选型建议。具体以项目官方文档为准。

深度技术分析:spmedia/Threat-Actor-Usernames-Scrape

项目背景与痛点

网络安全是当今互联网时代不可或缺的重要组成部分。在不断演变的网络威胁中,威胁行为者的用户名信息尤为关键,因为这些信息能直接揭示攻击者的行为模式与潜在攻击来源。

传统的威胁情报收集往往依赖于人工监控,效率低下且难以全面覆盖。spmedia/Threat-Actor-Usernames-Scrape 项目通过自动化抓取和收集来自多个犯罪论坛的用户名信息,为网络安全专家提供了一个宝贵的数据来源,帮助他们发现、分析并应对潜在的网络安全威胁。

核心技术揭秘

该项目的核心功能在于从不同网络犯罪平台自动抓取威胁行为者的用户名,并将这些数据整理、汇总,形成一份可供分析的威胁情报库。技术架构如下:

graph TD A[初始化] --> B[配置爬虫参数] B --> C[启动爬虫] C --> D[访问 web 站点] D --> E[解析网页数据] E --> F{"是否成功?"} F -->|"成功"| G[抽取用户名] G --> H[存储数据] F -->|"失败"| I[记录错误并重试] I --> J[重试次数控制] J -->|"达到重试上限"| K[退出] J -->|"继续重试"| D

关键技术栈和技术实现

项目使用 Python 开发,并复用了多个流行的 Web 爬虫库,例如:

  • BeautifulSoup:用于解析 HTML 页面。
  • Requests:用于发送 HTTP 请求,获取网页数据。
  • Scrapy:一个强大的爬虫框架,支持异步抓取,并自动处理多线程问题。

设计与数据流

项目在设计上理清了爬虫与数据存储之间的逻辑关系。通过配置文件设定爬虫的抓取规则与错误重试策略。爬虫启动后,依次访问目标网站,提取页面中的用户名信息,并存储在预设的文件系统或数据库中,以备后续威胁情报分析使用.

功能亮点与差异

与同类爬虫相比,spmedia/Threat-Actor-Usernames-Scrape 项目在以下几个方面表现出显著优势:

  • 高效的数据抓取能力:通过配置灵活的抓取规则,能够快速批量抓取多个特定平台的数据,包括 DarkForums、HackForums 等。
  • 精准的数据提取:利用先进的数据清洗技术和自然语言处理算法,进一步筛选出有价值的用户名信息。
  • 自动化与监控机制:内置错误重试与日志记录机制,保证爬虫在长时间运行中依然稳定可靠。

应用场景与落地建议

该项目非常适合用在网络安全防御系统中,作为数据收集的重要一环。使用过程中,开发者需要注意:

  • 数据隐私与合法性:在抓取数据时必须确保遵循当地的法律与伦理规范。
  • 性能优化:当抓取数据量过大时,可能会对系统性能产生影响,要合理控制并发抓取任务。
  • 安全性:对获取的数据进行严格的清洗和处理,确保不会引入恶意代码。

综合评价

spmedia/Threat-Actor-Usernames-Scrape 作为一款专门收集网络犯罪分子用户名信息的工具,无论是在功能设计还是实现细节上,都体现出了专业级的水准。但是,由于此项目涉及敏感信息抓取与处理,开发者在实际应用过程中需谨慎对待数据的合法性和安全性问题。

关于

GitHub 原始描述(英文)

A collection & lists of intel and usernames scraped from various cybercrime sources & forums. DarkForums, HackForums, Patched, Cracked, BreachForums, OGUser, XSS, Dread, & more

描述取自 GitHub 官方 API,保持仓库作者书写的原文。

README

CTI Stuffs - Threat Actor Usernames Scraped Edition

CTI nerds vs threat actors

A collection of CTI stuffs and various intel 📃

I was inspired to make this because corpo threat intel companies are straight up absurd and charge 5-6 figures a year just to access this same type of data. I aint paying for that shit and oftentimes those of us in CTI cant get the needed budget approved for the tools we need/want so here we are. This is an ever changing and evolving repo that should (in theory) be updated oftenish so that it has fresh data.

A big thank you to Threat Actor Usernames (threatactorusernames.com) for making an easy to use web version of this data and it be searchable by name.

Feed this data into your TIP.

If you have any neat fresh data or intel to add, submit a PR and throw it up baw.

It’s easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop — John le Carré

If you are a researcher or cybercriminal who found your username in these lists, you should enable in the forum Settings to hide yourself when online and/or disable your acct from displaying in the Who’s Online sections publicly. If you make posts on the forum, well no way to hide from that. Just make sure you use a username that is non-attributed to your other monikers or self. Also make sure to VPN and proxy up because you know law enforcement be getting their hands on these forums raw databases. Tons of nerds (like me) be scraping weird stuffs like this.

Other uses for these lists:

  • combine all the usernames together to use as an interesting password list
  • enrich existing intel
  • pick a random username from these lists and adopt it for yourself on another forum or platform to mask yourself a bit and to confuse some researchers or law enforcement
  • use the data to send PM spam on the forums
  • do some cool nerd data science things
  • track a threat actor username across multiple forums to see which ones they are on

Help me grow this repo by giving me a ⭐ pls <3

Scraped Forums 📃

Usernames scraped from various cybercrime forums.

Forums scraped from

Dead:

Active:

Scraped Username Statistics

Metric Count
Total usernames 942,608
Total unique usernames 812,807
Total duplicate usernames 58,310

Last updated: July 20, 2026*

*total usernames is updated frequently. unique and dupe is monthly


Dead Forums

These are forums that went offline since being scraped.

BreachForums.st (rip)

dead_forum_users_breachforums_st.txt

A list of usernames scraped from the popular cybercrime and hacking forum BreachForums. Scraped from the “Who’s Online” section of the forum.

Date Range of scrape: March 2025 --> April 15 2025 12:52 am - BreachForums went down on this date (RIP)

Amount: 57,468 unique usernames


BreachForums.hn (rip)

dead_forum_users_breached_hn.txt

The forum came back online after its take down in April and the arrests of IntelBroker and other members. This is a list of usernames found and scraped from the new remix’d version. Scraped from the “Who’s Online” section of the forum. Is it a fed psyop honeypot or an actual revival? Time will tell, but for now, we be scraping em.

Date Range of scrape: July 26 2025 --> Aug 11 2025 - forum went down and its been alleged it was a fed honeypot the entire time. after this came out, it went offline shortly after to never return.

Amount: 6,537 unique usernames


BreachForums.as

forum_users_breachforumsBF.txt

Sigh…BF number #32423423. How long will this one last? Likely not long but until then, we be scraping it.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users who respond in them.

As predicted, this forum went offline lol. Didnt even last 6 months.

old tlds: BreachForums.jp, BreachForums.bf

Date Range of scrape: December 18 2025 --> March 16 2026

Amount: 39,229


NoHide.io (rip)

dead_forum_users_nohide_io.txt

It was small hacking/carding forum.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads.

Date Range of scrape: December 14 2025 --> Dec 31 2025

Amount: 138


BreachStars.io

dead_forum_users_breachstars.txt

A forum that recently was created from the ashes of Breached going down. Admins are Rey from the Hellcat ransomware group and a few other threat actors from the breached/RaaS/db leaker scene.

Previous domains include: BreachSta.rs, Bstars.st, breachstars.st, breachstars.hn

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads.

Date Range of scrape: September 9 2025 --> Jan 24 2026

Amount: 733


Leakbase.la

dead_forum_users_leakbase.txt

Usernames scraped from Leakbase - this site has been around a while and has went thru a few different domain TLDs. It’s basically where threat actors can go and leak dbs and info or DL them.

Usernames gathered from the Who’s Online section, chatbox, and posted threads.

Date Range of scrape: August 22 2025 --> March 4 2026. Forum taken down and seized by law enforcement.

Amount: 10,954 unique usernames


Umbra.by

dead_forum_users_umbra.txt

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users who respond in them.

Date Range of scrape: January 03 2025 --> 4/1/26

Amount: 257


RAMP

dead_forum_users_ramp.txt

Collected usernames from RAMP/RAMP4U forum by Dancho Danchev. Forum was taken down by the FBI in Jan 2026 and never came back up.

Date Range of scrape: Jan 2026

Amount: 7,709


Nulled

dead_forum_users_nulled.txt

From their db leak in 2018 of nulled.cr

Date Range of scrape: 2018

Amount: 42,315



Active Forums

Cracked.sh

forum_users_cracked.txt

Usernames scraped from the newly launched post-takedown Cracked hacking forum.

Date Range of scrape: May 27 2025 --> current date

Amount: 257,719 unique usernames


DarkForums.su

forum_users_darkforums.txt

Usernames scraped from DarkForums.

Old urls: DarkForums.io, DarkForums.me

Date Range of scrape: June 1 2025 --> current date

Amount: 82,254 unique usernames


Patched.to

forum_users_patched.txt

Usernames that have been scraped from the Patched forum - its some basic run of the mill skid forum.

These usernames are gathered from posted threads.

Old url(s): Patched.sh

Date Range of scrape: August 23 2025 --> current date

Amount: 48,110


HackForums.net

forum_users_hackforums.txt

Usernames that have been scraped from HackForums. The skiddiest of skid forums. The pipeline from kids stumbling upon HF and then after a few years becoming SIM Swapper or com kids is kinda high tho.

Usernames gathered from posted threads and the Who’s Online section at the bottom of the forum.

Date Range of scrape: August 25 2025 --> current date

Amount: 61,217


OGUser.com/OGU

forum_users_oguser.txt

OGU/OGUsers forum has been around for a good lil while. Mainly associated with selling ‘og’ usernames like if you wanted to buy the handle @poop on Instagram or etc.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users that reply within threads.

Date Range of scrape: October 7 2025 --> current date

Amount: 14,895


BlackHatWorld

forum_users_blackhatworld.txt

This forum has been around forever (decades). Basically a bunch of nerds talking about how to make money online via spam, seo, affiliate marketing, social media, blah blah blah.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users who add replies.

Date Range of scrape: October 9 2025 --> current date

Amount: 37,499


DarknetArmy.io

forum_users_darknetarmy.txt

A forum for leaks, carding, spam, and more.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users who respond in them.

Date Range of scrape: December 14 2025 --> current date

Amount: 82,710


XSS.pro

forum_users_xss.txt

Russians gunna Russian. This forum is pretty og in the scene. They be talking about Программирование Разработка, Malware, Мошенничество, and Уязвимости. Used to have the domain xss[.]is until July 2025 when LE seized their stuffs and arrested 1 nerd (toha aka admin) in Ukraine over it. As always, LE takedowns are largely ineffective and the forum simply just popped back up a few days later on a new TLD.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users who respond in them.

Date Range of scrape: December 25 2025 --> current date

Amount: 12,575


Dread

forum_users_dread.txt

The infamous Dread. Ran by HugBunter. Mainly a darknet market (DNM) forum that grew out of when the reddit admins did a ban wave of all the DNM subs several years ago. Content includes buying and selling drugs, carding, social engineering, hacking, and all kinda fraud and sus stuffs. Honestly its a wild place but Hug seems like a really interesting fella.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and users who respond in them.

Date Range of scrape: December 27 2025 --> current date

Amount: 23,508


Rehubcom.ag

forum_users_rehubcom.txt

Following the shutdown/raid of XSS top admin, ex-moderator Rehub launched RehubCom. A primarily RU language forum.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads, users who respond in them, users who show up in the Members Online or Latest member section.

Date Range of scrape: January 13 2026 --> current date

Amount: 2,615


ASCarding.net

forum_users_ascarding.txt

A financial fraud and carding forum. These people be stealing yo grandmas credit card or frauding her retirement funds.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads.

Date Range of scrape: February 5 2026 --> current date

Amount: 14,240


Altenen.is

forum_users_altenen.txt

Another financial fraud and carding forum and also has some hacking sections.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and Who’s Online.

Date Range of scrape: February 7 2026 --> current date

Amount: 97,581


CraxPro.org

forum_users_craxpro.txt

A financial fraud and carding/spamming/hacking forum.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and Who’s Online.

Date Range of scrape: March 31 2026 --> current date

Amount: 9,677


xReactor.org

forum_users_xreactor.txt

A carding forum.

The usernames in this list are scraped from posted threads and Who’s Online.

Date Range of scrape: March 31 2026 --> current date

Amount: 12,194


Breached.su

forum_users_breached2026.txt

once again, same shit different pile. 2026 remix edition. this forum will not last long. they also be allowing ransomware nerds to post on it.

Past urls: Breached.st

Date Range of scrape: May 15 2026 --> current date

Amount: 23,589


PwnForums.st

forum_users_pwnforums.txt

Scraped from posted threads, replies, and Who’s Online sections.

Date Range of scrape: May 22 2026 --> current date

Amount: 11,666


T1erOne

forum_users_tierone.txt

Scraped from posted threads, replies, and Who’s Online sections.

Date Range of scrape: June 06 2026 --> current date

Amount: 164


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