Security Blogs

Deep dive with the Splunk Threat Research Team on Linux Privilege Escalation and Linux Persistence Techniques.

In this January 2022 release, The Splunk Threat Research (STRT) team focused on the recently released Sysmon for Linux technology addition to Splunk.

Each month, Splunk security experts curate a list of news articles, research, white papers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read. We hope you enjoy!

Synthetic Adversarial Log Objects (SALO) is a framework for the generation of log events without the need for infrastructure or actions to initiate the event that causes a log event. Learn more about its purpose and how you can utilize it.

Welcome to the Splunk staff picks blog. Each month, Splunk security experts select presentations, white papers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read. We hope you enjoy.

The focus of this threat advisory is on a recently reported destructive payload by Microsoft MSTIC under the name of WhisperGate. We break down the different components and functions of how this payload works and provide a series of detections to mitigate and defend against this threat.

An introduction to linux post exploitation simulation and threat detection using Splunk Attack Range and linux Sysmon.

Check out the latest Security Analytics enhancements to Splunk Enterprise Security with our latest 7.0 release.

Start detection against behaviors and TTPs from a Remcos loader that utilizes DynamicWrapperX (dynwrapx.dll) to execute shellcode and inject Remcos RAT into the target process.