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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading September 2023
Our Splunk security experts curated their September 2023 list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read.

Security
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Revisiting the Big Picture: Macro-level ATT&CK Updates for 2023
SURGe reviews the latest attacker trends and behaviors with this look at four years of ATT&CK data from some of the largest and most trusted threat reporting sources.

Security
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Defending the Gates: Understanding and Detecting Ave Maria (Warzone) RAT
The Splunk Threat Research Team provides a deep-dive analysis of Ave Maria RAT, also known as 'Warzone RAT.'

Security
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Mockbin and the Art of Deception: Tracing Adversaries, Going Headless and Mocking APIs
Splunk's Threat Research Team delves into the attack's components, usage of tools like Mockbin and headless browsers, and provides guidance on detecting such activities.

Security
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Using metadata & tstats for Threat Hunting
Behold the power of metadata and tstats commands! These commands will quickly provide situational awareness of your hosts and sourcetypes as you begin hunting.

Security
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Using stats, eventstats & streamstats for Threat Hunting…Stat!
The stats command is a crucial capability when you’re threat hunting. And so are two related commands: eventstats & streamstats. Get all the details, right here.

Security
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Threat Hunting for Dictionary-DGA with PEAK
Explore applied model-assisted threat hunting for dictionary-based domain generation algorithms using the SURGe Security Research Team's PEAK Threat Hunting Framework.

Security
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Deep Learning in Security: Text-based Phishing Email Detection with BERT Model
We introduced a large language model (LLM)-based phishing email detector integrated into the Splunk DSDL app. We provide details on model training and evaluation, comparisons to other machine learning and deep learning algorithms as well as deployment approaches to Splunk in this blog.

Security
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Sharing is Not Caring: Hunting for Network Share Discovery
This post offers a practical guide to enhancing detection strategies against network share discovery, a technique often used by threat actors.