Category: SOC

The Detection & Response Chronicles: Covert Operations Through QEMU

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.

Managing SIEM Log Collectors at Scale with Ansible and GitHub Actions – Part 1

A Security Operations Center (SOC) watches an organization’s IT systems for cyber threats 24/7. It quickly finds and fixes security problems and uses Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to collect and analyze alerts and logs. SIEMs depend on log Collectors servers, which gather data from many sources and send it to the SIEM. … Continue reading Managing SIEM Log Collectors at Scale with Ansible and GitHub Actions – Part 1 →

Detecting Teams Chat Phishing Attacks (Black Basta)

A person in a suit is overwhelmed by a pile of envelopes while typing on a keyboard, with a computer screen displaying "Help Desk" nearby. Another individual in a hooded jacket is reaching towards the person, symbolizing a phishing threat. The background is filled with binary code.

For quite a while now, there has been a new ongoing threat campaign where the adversaries first bomb a user's mailbox with spam emails and then pose as Help Desk or IT Support on Microsoft Teams to trick their potential victims into providing access. This social engineering tactic is being attributed to the ransomware group "Black Basta".

Validate your Windows Audit Policy Configuration with KQL

We provide a KQL query that will help you validate your defined Windows audit security policy configuration. Defining a Windows audit policy is an important step in establishing a robust security posture. Ensuring that the audit policy is applied consistently across your environment is just as important as defining that policy and quality controls should be in place.

From Evidence to Advantage: Leveraging Incident Response Artifacts for Red Team Engagements

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What is this blog post about? This blog post is about why incident responder artifacts not only play a role on the defensive but also offensive side of cyber security. We are gonna look at some of the usually collected evidences and how they can be valuable to us as red team operators. We will … Continue reading From Evidence to Advantage: Leveraging Incident Response Artifacts for Red Team Engagements →