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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Threat Update: CaddyWiper
Security
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Threat Update: CaddyWiper

Get a breakdown of the features of the new malicious payload used against Ukraine, CaddyWiper.
Living Off The Land: Threat Research February 2022 Release
Security
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Living Off The Land: Threat Research February 2022 Release

In this February 2022 release, the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) focused on comparing currently created living off the land security content with Sigma and the LOLBas project.
Threat Update DoubleZero Destructor
Security
5 Minute Read

Threat Update DoubleZero Destructor

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a closer look at a new malicious payload named DoubleZero Destructor (CERT-UA #4243).
Detecting HermeticWiper
Security
9 Minute Read

Detecting HermeticWiper

Detecting HermeticWiper destructive software and ransomware decoy with Splunk.
Deep Dive on Persistence, Privilege Escalation Technique and Detection in Linux Platform
Security
10 Minute Read

Deep Dive on Persistence, Privilege Escalation Technique and Detection in Linux Platform

Deep dive with the Splunk Threat Research Team on Linux Privilege Escalation and Linux Persistence Techniques.
Linux Persistence and Privilege Escalation: Threat Research January 2022 Release
Security
6 Minute Read

Linux Persistence and Privilege Escalation: Threat Research January 2022 Release

In this January 2022 release, The Splunk Threat Research (STRT) team focused on the recently released Sysmon for Linux technology addition to Splunk.