Splunk Threat Research Team's Blog Posts

The Splunk Threat Research Team is an active part of a customer’s overall defense strategy by enhancing Splunk security offerings with verified research and security content such as use cases, detection searches, and playbooks. We help security teams around the globe strengthen operations by providing tactical guidance and insights to detect, investigate and respond against the latest threats. The Splunk Threat Research Team focuses on understanding how threats, actors, and vulnerabilities work, and the team replicates attacks which are stored as datasets in the Attack Data repository.

Our goal is to provide security teams with research they can leverage in their day to day operations and to become the industry standard for SIEM detections. We are a team of industry-recognized experts who are encouraged to improve the security industry by sharing our work with the community via conference talks, open-sourcing projects, and writing white papers or blogs. You will also find us presenting our research at conferences such as Defcon, Blackhat, RSA, and many more.

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Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: August 2026 Update

This blog post covers security content developed May 2026 – July 2026

Security

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Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: July Recap

The Splunk Threat Research Team had two releases of new security content via the ESCU app.

Security

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Phantom Stealer Unmasked: Shellcode, Steganography, and Credential Theft

Unmask Phantom Stealer, a .NET credential-stealing threat, and explore its steganography, shellcode injection, and evasion tactics with 32 actionable Splunk detections.

Security

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Bundled to Steal: The Salat Stealer Campaign

Learn how the Salat Stealer campaign uses Go-based surveillance and data exfiltration, and explore its infection chain and how to hunt for this threat using Splunk.

Security

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Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: June Recap

In June, the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) had 1 release of new security content via the Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU) app (v6.1.0).

Security

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Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: May Recap

In May, the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) had 2 releases of new security content via the Enterprise Security Content Update app.