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May 11, 2021

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Threat Hunter Intelligence Report

By Adam Swanda

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Welcome to Splunk’s Threat Hunter Intelligence Report — a monthly series brought to you by Splunk’s threat hunting and intelligence (THI) team. We research and produce actionable reports on the latest cybersecurity threats and trends — helping organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries, one report at a time.

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The latest in threats like malware, phishing, fraud, supply chain attacks, ransomware, emerging threats and e-crime.
Tips and insights on security issues like data breaches, legal and compliance, nation-states and geopolitics.
In-depth hacker profiles on THI’s “Most Wanted” list.

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Malware

Cybersecurity Laws & Regulation

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August 2021 Report

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September 2021 Report

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Adam Swanda

Adam Swanda is a Principal Intelligence Analyst at Splunk on the Threat Hunting and Intelligence team. His work at Splunk can be summed up as tracking threats of interest, understanding how and why they operate, and providing tactical and operational intelligence to defend against those threats. With nine years of experience in the security industry, Adam has previously provided cyber crime expertise as part of a large threat intelligence provider, worked in the security operations centers for major online and brick-and-mortar retailers, contributed to threat research efforts at a security software start-up, and developed or contributed to several open source tools.

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