Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

I have often heard it said that "data is the new oil" - it has value if it can be extracted and used correctly. How to extract value and leverage this opportunity - and occasional threat - is what I most commonly hear is keeping today's executives awake at night. From mom-and-pop shops to global enterprises, within nonprofits and the public sector, every leader wants to become data-driven. Unlocking the power of data is, obviously, critical to success.

For several months, the Intelligence & Analytics team at Elastic Security has tracked an ongoing adversary campaign appearing to target Ukranian government officials. Based on our monitoring, we believe Gamaredon Group, a suspected Russia-based threat group, is behind this campaign. Our observations suggest a significant overlap between tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) included within this campaign and public reporting.

It’s been a while since I have had the pleasure of announcing a new version of Security Monitoring (September 2018), but today I am doing just that. There is nothing better to inspire spending your evenings coding and playing with Splunk than your partner watching shows that just don’t interest you! For my UK friends, yes ‘Love Island’ is that show and for my more international friends "look it up!". So, what updates did I bring?

If you follow me on Medium or Twitter, you may already be aware. Still, if you don’t (I assure you that you’re missing out), I have been researching several technologies in preparation for an OPSEC/Anti-OSINT tool that I am crafting. I am using this tool as a means to push myself harder to learn something new that I can apply professionally. I am also doing this to be able to make a positive difference in the world.

In the previous post, we covered some of the frameworks accessible by kernel extensions that provide information about file system, process, and network events. These frameworks included the Mandatory Access Control Framework, the KAuth framework, and the IP/socket filter frameworks. In this post, we will go into the various tips and tricks that can be used in order to obtain even more information regarding system events.