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

17 Minute Read

Hunting M365 Invaders: Dissecting Email Collection Techniques

The Splunk Threat Research Team describes various methods attackers may leverage to monitor mailboxes, how to simulate them and how teams can detect them using Splunk’s out-of-the-box security content.

Security

9 Minute Read

From Water to Wine: An Analysis of WINELOADER

In this blog post we'll look closely at the WINELOADER backdoor and how Splunk can be used to detect and respond to this threat.

Security

10 Minute Read

Under the Hood of SnakeKeylogger: Analyzing its Loader and its Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

In this blog, the Splunk Threat Research Team provides valuable insights to enable security analysts and blue teamers to defend and be aware of these scam tactics.

Security

9 Minute Read

Security Insights: JetBrains TeamCity CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199

The Splunk Threat Research Team examines exploit operations, analytics, hunting queries, and tips on capturing TeamCity logs.

Security

11 Minute Read

Unveiling Phemedrone Stealer: Threat Analysis and Detections

The Splunk Threat Research Team dissects the Phemedrone Stealer.

Security

11 Minute Read

Hunting M365 Invaders: Navigating the Shadows of Midnight Blizzard

The Splunk Threat Research Team outlines the attack chain detailed in the Microsoft blog, offering practical detection and hunting tips for cybersecurity defenders.