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Handy Elastic Tools for the Enthusiastic Detection Engineer
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Handy Elastic Tools for the Enthusiastic Detection Engineer

Tools like the EQLPlaygound, RTAs, and detection-rules CLI are great resources for getting started with EQL, threat hunting, and detection engineering respectively.

Mika Ayenson
Detecting and responding to Dirty Pipe with Elastic
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Detecting and responding to Dirty Pipe with Elastic

Elastic Security is releasing detection logic for the Dirty Pipe exploit.

Colson Wilhoit
Extracting Cobalt Strike Beacon Configurations
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Extracting Cobalt Strike Beacon Configurations

Part 2 - Extracting configurations from Cobalt Strike implant beacons.

Daniel Stepanic
Getting the Most Out of Transformers in Elastic
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Getting the Most Out of Transformers in Elastic

In this blog, we will briefly talk about how we fine-tuned a transformer model meant for a masked language modeling (MLM) task, to make it suitable for a classification task.

Apoorva Joshi
Adversary tradecraft 101: Hunting for persistence using Elastic Security (Part 2)
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Adversary tradecraft 101: Hunting for persistence using Elastic Security (Part 2)

Learn how Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic SIEM can be used to hunt for and detect malicious persistence techniques at scale.

Brent Murphy
Hunting In Memory
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Hunting In Memory

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.

Joe Desimone
Hunting For In-Memory .NET Attacks
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Hunting For In-Memory .NET Attacks

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

Joe Desimone
Detection and response for the actively exploited ProxyShell vulnerabilities
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Detection and response for the actively exploited ProxyShell vulnerabilities

In the last week, Elastic Security has observed the exploitation of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities associated with ProxyShell. Review the post to find newly released details about this activity.

Daniel Stepanic
Adversary tradecraft 101: Hunting for persistence using Elastic Security (Part 1)
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Adversary tradecraft 101: Hunting for persistence using Elastic Security (Part 1)

Learn how Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic SIEM can be used to hunt for and detect malicious persistence techniques at scale.

David French
Collecting Cobalt Strike Beacons with the Elastic Stack
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Collecting Cobalt Strike Beacons with the Elastic Stack

Part 1 - Processes and technology needed to extract Cobalt Strike implant beacons

Derek Ditch
Elastic Security opens public detection rules repo
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Elastic Security opens public detection rules repo

Elastic Security has opened its detection rules repository to the world. We will develop rules in the open alongside the community, and we’re welcoming your community-driven detections. This is an opportunity to share collective security knowledge.

Ross Wolf