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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Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft AppLocker, Part 1
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
Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft AppLocker, Part 2
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 Insights: Detecting CVE-2024-4040 Exploitation in CrushFTP
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.
Splunk Tools & Analytics To Empower Threat Hunters
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.
Hunting M365 Invaders: Dissecting Email Collection Techniques
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.
From Water to Wine: An Analysis of WINELOADER
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.