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A close look at the advanced techniques used in a Malaysian-focused APT campaign

Our Elastic Security research team has focused on advanced techniques used in a Malaysian-focused APT campaign. Learn who’s behind it, how the attack works, observed MITRE attack® techniques, and indicators of compromise.

Samir Bousseaden

Playing defense against Gamaredon Group

Learn about the recent campaign of a Russia-based threat group known as Gamaredon Group. This post will review these details and provide detection strategies.

Daniel Stepanic

Going Coast to Coast - Climbing the Pyramid with the Deimos Implant

The Deimos implant was first reported in 2020 and has been in active development; employing advanced analysis countermeasures to frustrate analysis. This post details the campaign TTPs through the malware indicators.

Andrew Pease

FORMBOOK Adopts CAB-less Approach

Campaign research and analysis of an observed FORMBOOK intrusion attempt.

Derek Ditch

Ransomware, interrupted: Sodinokibi and the supply chain

Learn how Elastic Endpoint Security's behavior-based protections prevented a targeted ransomware attack on multiple endpoints.

David French

Okta and LAPSUS$: What you need to know

The latest organization under the microscope of the LAPSUS$ group is Okta. Threat hunt for the recent breach targeting Okta users using these simple steps in Elastic

Jake King

Nimbuspwn: Leveraging vulnerabilities to exploit Linux via Privilege Escalation

Microsoft 365 Defender team released a post detailing several identified vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow adversarial groups to escalate privileges on Linux systems, allowing for deployment of payloads, ransomware, or other attacks.

Jake King

Collecting and operationalizing threat data from the Mozi botnet

The Mozi botnet is an ongoing malware campaign targeting unsecured and vulnerable networking devices. This post will showcase the analyst journey of collecting, analyzing, and operationalizing threat data from the Mozi botnet.

Andrew Pease

Testing your Okta visibility and detection with Dorothy and Elastic Security

Dorothy is a tool for security teams to test their visibility and detection capabilities for their Okta environment. IAM solutions are frequently targeted by adversaries but poorly monitored. Learn how to get started with Dorothy in this post.

David French

Practical security engineering: Stateful detection

By formalizing stateful detection in your rules, as well as your engineering process, you increase your detection coverage over future and past matches. In this blog post, learn why stateful detection is an important concept to implement.

Samir Bousseaden

Embracing offensive tooling: Building detections against Koadic using EQL

Find new ways to build behavioral detections against post-exploitation frameworks such as Koadic using Event Query Language (EQL).

Daniel Stepanic