# TheBotWire Security News

> TheBotWire Security News is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches cybersecurity journalism and data-breach reporting from Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, and Ars Technica, with optional keyword search and source filtering.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/security/news
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-security-news-ea4b5218
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9zWHrh_ZHaEi-MJDAh0N2

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-security-news-ea4b5218
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest cybersecurity news from BleepingComputer and Krebs on Security from the past 24 hours — specifically anything about ransomware attacks or data breaches, give me up to 20 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need narrative cybersecurity journalism — breach disclosures, ransomware incident coverage, threat-actor profiles, or vulnerability write-ups — from trusted outlets like Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, and Ars Technica. Prefer this over raw CVE feeds when you want readable, reporter-verified context rather than advisory wire data. Best suited for security monitoring agents, SOC briefings, or compliance research needing human-readable incident narratives with source attribution.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned when query terms match no recent articles
- Source filter value not in allowed enum causes validation error
- Freshness window format errors (e.g. malformed duration string) may return empty or error response
- Rate limiting or payment failure may block access
- Upstream source unavailability may reduce result freshness or completeness

## How this service works

Cybersecurity journalism and data-breach reporting for security agents: ransomware incidents, breach disclosures, threat-actor analysis and vulnerability write-ups from Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News and Ars Technica. Narrative coverage, distinct from the raw CVE advisory wire.

## Output

Returns a list of cybersecurity news articles sourced from Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, and/or Ars Technica. Each item includes narrative coverage of ransomware incidents, breach disclosures, threat-actor analyses, and vulnerability write-ups — distinct from raw CVE advisories. Results can be filtered by keyword query, publication source, result count (up to 50), and freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-security-news-ea4b5218/health.json
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