If you want just to see how to find detections for the Follina MS Office RCE, skip down to the “detections” sections. Otherwise, read on for a quick breakdown of what happened, how to detect it, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings.

The process for our technology partners to publish their SOAR Apps to Splunkbase just got faster and simpler. App updates are now automatically pulled from our partners’ GitHub repositories into the Splunkbase library in a matter of minutes. With 350+ SOAR Apps on Splunkbase across 200+ partners, this process improvement makes Splunk easier to integrate with and more importantly, provides our customers with even faster access to up-to-date Apps.

The way we work has drastically changed since the start of the pandemic. With more companies adopting remote and hybrid work models, there has been a 600% increase in cybercrime and 65% of organizations have seen a measurable increase in attempted cyberattacks, which is particularly problematic since 78% say remote workers are harder to secure.

The Splunk Threat Research Team has addressed a new malicious payload named AcidRain. This payload, deployed in the ongoing conflict zone of Eastern Europe, is designed to wipe modem or router devices (CPEs).

No matter how advanced your Security Operations Center (SOC) is, pre-built Playbook Packs from Splunk can augment your analysts with automation that scales with your organization’s maturity. SplunkⓇ Enterprise Security (ES) users can achieve this scalable automation by using a pre-built Risk Notable Playbook Pack in Splunk SOAR.

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) has been heads-down attempting to understand, simulate, and detect the Spring4Shell attack vector. This post shares detection opportunities STRT found in different stages of successful Spring4Shell exploitation. At the time of writing, there are two publicly known CVEs: CVE-2022-22963, and CVE-2022-22965. The Splunk Security Content below is designed to cover exploitation attempts across both CVEs.

The Splunk Threat Research Team recently developed a new analytic story, Active Directory Kerberos Attacks, to help security operations center (SOC) analysts detect adversaries abusing the Kerberos protocol to attack Windows Active Directory (AD) environments. In this blog post, we’ll describe some of the detection opportunities available to cyber defenders and highlight analytics from the analytic story.

The Splunk SOAR team is excited to be recognized within Forrester’s report Now Tech: Security Orchestration, Automation, And Response (SOAR), Q2 2022. Splunk SOAR is categorized within the Security Analytics Portfolio functionality segment and in the “Large” vendor market presence segment. The following post will share more on our views of the report, our position in this dynamic market landscape, and a look at what’s ahead.

The Splunk Threat Research Team continues to address ongoing threats in relation to geopolitical events in eastern Europe. The following payload named Cyclops Blink seems to target Customer Premise Equipment devices (CPE). These devices are generally prevalent in commercial and residential locations enabling internet connectivity (Cable, DSL Modems, Satellite Modems, Firewalls, etc).

Call me David. As you might have heard, Log4Shell, “the single biggest, most critical vulnerability ever”1 was recently disclosed to the public. You may even have seen us make mention of it here, here, here, or even maybe here. Splunkbase was impacted by way of apps both made by Splunk and third-party developers.