Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In the shadowy depths of your network, whispers grow louder — something isn’t right. Adversaries are on the prowl, targeting the very keys to your kingdom: your credentials. T1003 - OS Credential Dumping is their weapon of choice to steal password hashes and sensitive authentication materials. They quietly harvest secrets to impersonate users, escalate privileges, and move laterally through your environment.

In November 2024, I participated in SCinet with the Network Security team at SC24. My job was supporting Corelight sensors and threat hunting using the data the sensors produced. This engagement allowed for a very constructive comparison between the networking challenges at SC and Black Hat USA, where I had the honor of working in the Network Operations Center (NOC) a few months earlier. At SC, I felt immersed in the cutting-edge world of research computing with people showcasing the fastest everything.

Cross-domain attacks have become a defining challenge in modern cybersecurity, with adversaries exploiting gaps across endpoints, identity systems, and cloud environments to achieve their objectives. These sophisticated attacks use stealthy, malware-free techniques and legitimate tools, making them exceptionally difficult to detect and disrupt.

Organizations want to stay on top of cyber threats and detect them even before they occur. To do this, they need to detect threats and anomalies in their networks as quickly as possible. This is what we call threat hunting. It is a tool to help organizations constantly monitor their networks to detect and mitigate threats to keep them at a distance.

Cyberattacks are becoming more advanced, and groups like Scattered Spider are leading the way with their sophisticated techniques. This group is notorious for using social engineering methods like SIM swapping, voice phishing, and SMS phishing to trick employees into giving them access to sensitive systems. By pretending to be IT administrators, they bypass traditional security defenses, moving through networks unnoticed and stealing valuable data.

Organizations that work in the cloud face an increasing number of potential threats every day. Fortunately, automated detection and response can block many of these lower-level threats before they even require human attention. Unfortunately, that means the threats that evade automated defenses may be perpetrated by driven and sophisticated attackers — the kinds of threat actors who can infiltrate a system and remain undetected for up to 280 days on average.

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Few industries evolve as rapidly as technology—and the world of cybercrime is no exception. While businesses may hesitate to adopt new technologies due to regulatory pressures or security concerns, threat actors in the cybercrime space – who are free from ethical scruples or legal worries – are constantly innovating. This trend has only accelerated with the rise of Generative AI, which has democratized cybercrime by enabling attackers of all skill levels to launch sophisticated attacks.