Security Blogs

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.

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides a deep-dive analysis of Ave Maria RAT, also known as 'Warzone RAT.'

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.

Behold the power of metadata and tstats commands! These commands will quickly provide situational awareness of your hosts and sourcetypes as you begin hunting.

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.

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

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.

This post offers a practical guide to enhancing detection strategies against network share discovery, a technique often used by threat actors.

Splunk security experts share a list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies from August 2023 that they feel are worth a read.