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The Splunk Threat Research Team is an active part of a customer’s overall defense strategy by enhancing Splunk security offerings with verified research and security content such as use cases, detection searches, and playbooks. We help security teams around the globe strengthen operations by providing tactical guidance and insights to detect, investigate and respond against the latest threats. The Splunk Threat Research Team focuses on understanding how threats, actors, and vulnerabilities work, and the team replicates attacks which are stored as datasets in the Attack Data repository. 

Our goal is to provide security teams with research they can leverage in their day to day operations and to become the industry standard for SIEM detections. We are a team of industry-recognized experts who are encouraged to improve the security industry by sharing our work with the community via conference talks, open-sourcing projects, and writing white papers or blogs. You will also find us presenting our research at conferences such as Defcon, Blackhat, RSA, and many more.


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Security 3 Min Read

Introducing Splunk Attack Range v1.0
The Splunk Attack Range project has officially reached the v1.0 release – read on to learn how we got here, what features we’ve built for v1.0 and what the future looks like for Splunk Attack Range.
Security 5 Min Read

Detecting Clop Ransomware
As ransomware campaigns continue, malicious actors introduce different modus operandi to target their victims. In this blog, we’ll be taking a look at the Clop ransomware. This crimeware was discovered in 2019 and is said to be used for an attack that demanded one of the highest ransom amounts in recorded history.
Security 3 Min Read

Detecting AWS IAM Privilege Escalation
The Splunk Threat Research team develops security research to help SOC analysts detect adversaries attempting to escalate their privileges and gain elevated access to AWS resources. Learn how we simulate these attacks using Atomic Red Team, collect and analyze the AWS cloudtrail logs, and utilize pre-packaged Splunk detections to detect these threats.
Security 4 Min Read

Cloud Federated Credential Abuse & Cobalt Strike: Threat Research February 2021
Learn about the latest emerging threats, such as Cloud Federated Credential Abuse and Cobalt Strike, where bad actors are abusing credential privileges in cloud environments to gain unauthorized access.
Security 4 Min Read

MSHTA and MSBuild Cat Jam: Threat Research Release January 2021

Splunk's Security Research team was busy this past quarter generating attack data for 80% of all our detections. A step forward in validating and testing our security content and ensuring we can continually test detections via continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Security 2 Min Read

Using Splunk Attack Range to Test and Detect Data Destruction (ATT&CK 1485)
Using Splunk Attack Range to test and detect Data Destruction techniques
Security 2 Min Read

Splunk's Attack Range Provides a Simple Framework for Generating Attack Data

Splunk's Attack Range provides a turnkey framework for creating environments to simulate attacks as close to "ground truth" as possible.
Security 5 Min Read

Cities Held Hostage: Fighting Ransomware with Analytics
Splunk's Security Research Team dives into why ransomware's so successful and how to mitigate it.
Security 3 Min Read

New: Machine Learning in Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update
Use machine learning techniques to identify outliers in security-related data with a new probability-density function algorithm in Splunk's Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK)
Security 6 Min Read

Defending Against Common Phishing Frameworks Kits with Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update
Discover how Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU) can help you protect your network.
Security 4 Min Read

Monitor for, Investigate, and Respond to Phishing Payloads with Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update
Detect, investigate, and defend signs of phishing payloads in your environment with Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU)
Security 5 Min Read

Splunk Security Research Went on a Phishing Trip – Here's What Happened
Learn how to detect, monitor, and respond to the telltale signs of phishing using Splunk security products in the latest releases of Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU)
Security 6 Min Read

Defending Against Phishing Frameworks with Splunk Enterprise Security Content Updates
Attackers often use phishing framework kits to generate faux websites to trick unwitting users into visiting and/or giving up sensitive information.
Security 6 Min Read

Cloud Services Have Broken Your Defenses – Here's How to Fix Them
Don't fall for common misconceptions about cloud services. Learn how to protect your cloud infrastructure by shoring up some common holes.
Security 7 Min Read

CVE-2019-6340: Going Full Circle
Learn how to detect and investigate signs of a dangerous Drupal exploit detailed in CVE-2018-6340.
Security 2 Min Read

Catching the Coldroot RAT
Detect signs of the Mac Coldroot RAT malware in your environment with Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU)
Security 2 Min Read

I Do Not Like Your Ransom Scam. I Do Not Like It, SamSam I Am.
Find out how Splunk Enterprise Security Content Updates can protect you from the SamSam ransomware.
Security 3 Min Read

Get More Flexibility and Accelerated Searches with the New Endpoint Data Model
November's Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU) releases included some powerful updates, adapting searches to leverage the new Endpoint Data Model
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