Security analysts can move past traditional Indicators of Compromise from threat intel like domains, hashes, URLs, and IP addresses. These indicators typically aren't valid shortly after the incidents happen. Modern threat hunting by doing things like reading recent and relevant security articles, pull out behaviors that attackers are doing like commands such as net group "domain admins" or RDPing from workstation to workstation and translating those to threat hunting queries. I will talk about how to start small and will give a few examples where we proactively found evil in our environment.

 

Segment Resources:

https://www.scythe.io/library/operationalizing-red-canarys-2022-threat-detection-report

https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2022/05/09/quantum-ransomware-can-now-move-from-entry-to-encryption-in-under-four-hours?utm_campaign=itb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew&mid=1e3360a49c0b72a4c0e4550356ffee54

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-181a

 

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