This white paper explains how SecurityScorecard’s ThreatMarket intelligence engine continuously collects and analyzes a wide range of non-intrusive cybersecurity signals across the public internet and dark web to power its ratings. It outlines active collection methods such as service discovery, content capture, fingerprinting, configuration enumeration, botnet interrogation, certificate discovery, DNS name resolution, and gathering DNS-based “names and numbers” for asset attribution, alongside passive methods such as honeypots, sinkholes, passive DNS, advertising exchange monitoring, spam sender detection, credential dump monitoring, and tracking misuse of registered corporate emails. It also describes why internet data is complex and imperfect due to network partitioning, failures, recon

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