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 Insights: Tracking Confluence CVE-2023-22527
Security
6 Minute Read

Security Insights: Tracking Confluence CVE-2023-22527

In response to CVE-2023-22527, the Splunk Threat Research Team has developed new security detections to support defenders.
Security Insights: Investigating Ivanti Connect Secure Auth Bypass and RCE
Security
6 Minute Read

Security Insights: Investigating Ivanti Connect Secure Auth Bypass and RCE

The Splunk Threat Research Team has swiftly developed Splunk analytics and hunting queries, helping defenders quickly adapt and respond to emerging threats CVE-2023-46804 and CVE-2024-21887.
Enter The Gates: An Analysis of the DarkGate AutoIt Loader
Security
10 Minute Read

Enter The Gates: An Analysis of the DarkGate AutoIt Loader

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) provides a deep dive analysis of the DarkGate malware and its use of AutoIt.
Ghost in the Web Shell: Introducing ShellSweep
Security
7 Minute Read

Ghost in the Web Shell: Introducing ShellSweep

Splunk introduces ShellSweep, a suite of utilities designed to detect and combat malicious web shells in servers.
Hunting M365 Invaders: Blue Team's Guide to Initial Access Vectors
Security
17 Minute Read

Hunting M365 Invaders: Blue Team's Guide to Initial Access Vectors

Discover insights from the Splunk Threat Research Team on Microsoft 365 threat detection, focusing on data source analysis and effective methods for hunting initial access threats.
Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft Defender ASR with Atomic Techniques in Splunk
Security
17 Minute Read

Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft Defender ASR with Atomic Techniques in Splunk

Explore Microsoft Defender ASR's role in cybersecurity with Splunk and learn deployment, testing, and monitoring strategies for robust defense.