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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Security

9 Minute Read

regreSSHion: Uncovering CVE-2024-6387 in OpenSSH - A Critical Vulnerability

CVE-2024-6387, aka "regreSSHion", exposes Linux environments to remote unauthenticated code execution. Learn how to handle this CVE here.

Security

15 Minute Read

LNK or Swim: Analysis & Simulation of Recent LNK Phishing

LNK files are a common starting point for many phishing campaigns. Read on to strengthen your defenses against these LNK file phishing attacks.

Security

11 Minute Read

Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft AppLocker, Part 1

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides a comprehensive overview of AppLocker and guidance for getting started with AppLocker policies

Security

10 Minute Read

Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft AppLocker, Part 2

Leverage the power of Splunk to ingest, visualize, and analyze AppLocker events, enabling you to gain valuable insights and strengthen your organization's security posture.

Security

6 Minute Read

Security Insights: Detecting CVE-2024-4040 Exploitation in CrushFTP

The Splunk Threat Research Team explores how Splunk can help you identify and investigate CVE-2024-4040 exploitation in your CrushFTP environment.

Security

14 Minute Read

Splunk Tools & Analytics To Empower Threat Hunters

Calling all threat hunters! This article dives into the many Splunk tools and analytics that can help threat hunters in their day-to-day hunting activities.