Articles by Joe Desimone

This post includes a primer on kernel mode attacks, along with Elastic’s recommendations for securing users from kernel attacks leveraging vulnerable drivers.

Elastic Security discovered PHOREAL malware, which is targeting Southeast Asia financial organizations, particularly those in the Vietnamese financial sector.

Elastic Security verifies new destructive malware targeting Ukraine: Operation Bleeding Bear

Elastic Security has identified active intrusions leveraging the newly identified BLISTER malware loader utilizing valid code-signing certificates to evade detection. We are providing detection guidance for security teams to protect themselves.

Signature-based detection — especially in-memory scanning — can be a valuable detection strategy. In this blog, learn how to detect Cobalt Strike regardless of configuration or stealth features enabled with an effective false positive rate of zero.

Threat Hunters are charged with the difficult task of sifting through vast sources of diverse data to pinpoint adversarial activity at any stage in the attack.

As a follow up to my DerbyCon presentation, this post will investigate an emerging trend of adversaries using .NET-based in-memory techniques to evade detection