Security Blogs

Learn how to leverage the real-world and simulated attack data that Splunk's Threat Research team collected to use machine learning to discover attack activity and identify how to transform insights into detections.

If you haven’t heard the news, Splunk Phantom is now Splunk SOAR – available both on-prem and in the cloud. Read on to find out what that means for you.

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) has detected the resurface of a Crypto Botnet using Telegram, a widely used messaging application that can create bots and execute code remotely. Learn more about the indicators of the botnet operation and use our pre-built and tested detections to find them in your environment.

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) addressed Trickbot in the July release. Trickbot is a very popular crimeware carrier (Trojan) associated with current campaigns.

These monthly postings will feature the favorite security-centric presentations, white papers and customer case studies from various peeps in the Splunk (or not) security world that WE think everyone should read. If you would like to read other months, please take a peek at previous posts in the "Staff Picks" series!

In this blog, the Splunk Threat Research team will show you how to use Splunk Attack Range to simulate cyber attacks from the Conti Ransomware group. It will also have pre-built detections that you can use to detect them in your environment.

SeriousSAM or CVE-2021-36934 is a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. The Splunk Threat Research team recommends performing an assessment to better understand the impact of this vulnerability in corporate environments.

It’s time to take that breach vacation and get the inside scoop at what Splunk has happening at Black Hat 2021.

Splunk Security Essentials (SSE) is now part of the Splunk security portfolio and fully supported with an active Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise license. Start using SSE and apply prescriptive guidance and deploy pre-built security detections in your Splunk environment.