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

5 Minute Read

Follina for Protocol Handlers

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares how to identify protocol handlers on an endpoint, different ways to simulate adversary tradecraft that utilizes a protocol handler, and a piece of inspiring hunting content to help defenders identify protocol handlers being used in their environment.

Security

24 Minute Read

AppLocker Rules as Defense Evasion: Complete Analysis

The Splunk Threat Research Team analyzes 'Azorult loader' (a payload that imports its own AppLocker rules) to understand the tactics and techniques that may help defend against these types of threats.

Security

6 Minute Read

ML Detection of Risky Command Exploit

Discover how to use machine learning algorithms to develop methods for detecting misuse or abuse of risky SPL commands to further pinpoint a true security threat.

Security

6 Minute Read

Introducing Splunk Attack Range v2.0

The Splunk Attack Range project has officially reached the v2.0 release with a host of new features – get all the details from the Splunk Threat Research Team.

Security

11 Minute Read

Threat Update: Industroyer2

The Splunk Threat Research Team offers an analysis of relevant detection opportunities of one of the new malicious payloads found by the Ukranian CERT named 'Industroyer2.'

Security

10 Minute Read

Threat Update: AcidRain Wiper

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares the details on the new malicious payload named AcidRain, designed to wipe modem or router devices (CPEs).