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Announcing the availability of Cisco Talos Incident Response services to Splunk customers.

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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading December 2021

Welcome to the Splunk staff picks blog. Each month, Splunk security experts curate a list of presentations, white papers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read.
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Simulating, Detecting, and Responding to Log4Shell with Splunk

Splunk Threat Research Team simulated the Log4j vulnerabilities in the Splunk Attack Range. Using the data collected, we developed 13 new detections and 9 playbooks to help Splunk SOAR customers investigate and respond to this threat.
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Splunk SOAR Playbooks: TruSTAR Indicator Enrichment

Learn about the TruSTAR Indicator Enrichment playbook, providing a strong foundation for utilizing threat intelligence in SOAR.
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Log4Shell - Detecting Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) Continued

Good news, you can use Splunk to proactively hunt using Network Traffic and DNS query logs data sources to detect potential Log4Shell exploit. From Splunk SURGe, learn even more detections against CVE-2021-44228.
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Active Directory Lateral Movement Detection: Threat Research Release, November 2021

The Splunk Threat Research Team recently updated the Active Directory Lateral Movement analytic story to help security operations center (SOC) analysts detect adversaries executing these techniques within Windows Active Directory (AD) environments.
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Log4Shell - Detecting Log4j 2 RCE Using Splunk

A serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the popular open source Apache Log4j logging library poses a threat to thousands of applications and third-party services that leverage this library. From Splunk SURGe, learn how you can detect Log4j 2 RCE using Splunk.
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Splunk For OT Security: Perimeter And Vulnerability Evolution

This blog focuses on the latest enhancements made to Splunk's OT Security Add-on, including highlighting key features and improvements that have been made in version 2.1
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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading November 2021

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Splunk staff picks blog. Each month, Splunk security experts curate a list of presentations, white papers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read. We hope you enjoy.
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Hyperledger Fabric Security Monitoring with Splunk

In this post, we demonstrate how to set up effective security monitoring of your Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure. We identify some common threats, recognize key data sources to monitor, and walk through using Splunk to ingest and visualize your data.
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Securing DevSecOps - Threat Research Release October 2021

Learn how you can secure your development security operations with pre-built and tested Splunk detections and automated playbooks.
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Detecting Remcos Tool Used by FIN7 with Splunk

The following is a walkthrough of Remcos executed via Attack Range Local. We will go over some of the multiple and intrusive operations this remote access tool can execute at compromised hosts.
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FIN7 Tools Resurface in the Field – Splinter or Copycat?

The Splunk Threat Research team addresses the two tools used by the well-organized and highly-skilled criminal group FIN7 — JSS Loader and Remcos.
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Play Now with BOTS Partner Experiences: Corelight

With the official launch of bots.splunk.com, we're pleased to announce Partner Experiences – capture the flag (CTF) on-demand challenges, built by a Splunk technology partner, running in Splunk, hosted on the BOTS platform and available for free.
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Detecting IcedID... Could It Be A Trickbot Copycat?

IcedID is a trojan that has been used in recent malicious campaigns and with new defense bypass methods.
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CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and Splunk

Accompanying today’s announcement from CISA (BOD 22-01) and their new Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, SURGe and Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) have coordinated to add functionality into Enterprise Security Content Updates (ESCU). This added functionality will help network defenders understand vulnerability context alongside relevant ESCU detections.
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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading October 2021

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Splunk staff picks blog. Each month, Splunk security experts curate a list of presentations, white papers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read. This month we decided to switch things up and include some of our favorite .conf21 presentations. We hope you enjoy.
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Splunk Partners with Singapore To Help Companies Enhance Cybersecurity

Raen Lim, Group Vice President, South Asia & Korea, shares how Splunk partners with the Singapore government to help the nation's small and medium-sized enterprises take a proactive stance toward addressing cyber threats.
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Lift Your Spirits With Splunk SOAR

Halloween is just around the corner and we’re looking forward to trick-or-treating, donning our best costumes, and watching [scary] movies. Read on to learn how a few of our favorite Halloween movies remind us of our most recent Splunk SOAR updates.