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

6 Minute Read

AcidPour Wiper Malware: Threat Analysis and Detections

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides an analysis of AcidPour and how to use Splunk’s out-of-the-box security content to help defend against this wiper malware.

Security

4 Minute Read

Splunk Security Content for Impact Assessment of CrowdStrike Windows Outage

This blog is intended to help existing Splunk customers who are also customers of CrowdStrike gain visibility into how the CrowdStrike outage may be impacting their organizations.

Security

8 Minute Read

Breaking Down Linux.Gomir: Understanding this Backdoor’s TTPs

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides an analysis of Linux.Gomir to help security analysts, blue teamers and Splunk customers defend against this threat.

Security

14 Minute Read

Introducing ShellSweepPlus: Open-Source Web Shell Detection

Detect web shells easily with ShellSweepPlus, an open-source tool for detecting potential web shells. Learn how ShellSweepPlus works and how to use it here.

Security

9 Minute Read

regreSSHion: Uncovering CVE-2024-6387 in OpenSSH - A Critical Vulnerability

CVE-2024-6387, aka "regreSSHion", exposes Linux environments to remote unauthenticated code execution. Learn how to handle this CVE here.

Security

15 Minute Read

LNK or Swim: Analysis & Simulation of Recent LNK Phishing

LNK files are a common starting point for many phishing campaigns. Read on to strengthen your defenses against these LNK file phishing attacks.