This blog is the first in a series exploring how Summary Rules, together with Auxiliary or Data Lake storage, can help organizations optimize SIEM costs without compromising core threat detection and monitoring capabilities.
Adversaries have always relied on legitimate tools to carry out their attacks. These tools are already trusted by security solutions, which allows them to blend in with normal activity, maintain a low footprint, and make detection much harder for defenders. By using these legitimate tools, adversaries can carry out a wide range of actions, such as moving laterally across networks, establishing C2 channels, or maintaining persistence, all without triggering any alerts.
Keyloggers: A Persistent Threat Nowadays, virtually all digital services rely on logins and authentication, from email inboxes to help desks. These involve login credentials to prove identity, typically at least a username and a password. Initially, this information is confidential from a potential attacker. While a username can be relatively easy to guess in a … Continue reading Security’s Blind Spot: Physical Keyloggers That Bypass Antivirus Entirely
On March 31, 2026, two malicious Axios versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were briefly published to npm via a compromised maintainer account. The only change performed was the addition of a trojanized dependency, whose postinstall script deployed a cross‑platform RAT (for macOS, Windows, and Linux). Although the Axios packages were removed within hours, multiple hits were … Continue reading The Axios npm supply chain incident: fake dependency, real backdoor
In late January 2026, an advisory covering two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-1281 & CVE-2026-1340) in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) was published. Shortly after, reports (in example by tenable) mentioned publicly available proof-of-concept exploits. On February 9th 2026, Defused published a blog post describing a specific webshell being deployed on EPMM devices via this … Continue reading Ivanti EPMM ‘Sleeper Shells’ not so sleepy?
Kerberos is one of the most common protocols in organizations that utilize Windows Active Directory, and an essential part of Windows authentication used to verify the identity of a user or a host [1]. As such, Kerberos is often a target for adversaries trying to either steal or forge Kerberos tickets [2]. In this blog … Continue reading Capture the Kerberos Flag: Detecting Kerberos Anomalies
