Bots have become integral to our lives, offering many benefits across various industries. Of all these bots, there are good bots, bots for telling dad jokes and (significantly less cool) bots focused on distributing malware. Understanding the types of bots out there should help you harness the power of good bots while helping you identify bots to avoid. This article will explore all types of bots, empowering you to make informed decisions and reap the rewards while keeping risks at bay.

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) plays an important role in web security — ensuring secure communication between websites and the web browsers of users. Read on to learn about the importance of HSTS, key features such as HSTS preloading, the threats that HSTS can mitigate, and some of the limitations of the protocol.

If you’ve been following our series on the PEAK threat hunting framework, you might already know that the purpose of threat hunting isn’t just to find security incidents your automated detection systems missed. Finding incidents is more like a helpful side effect. The real reason to hunt is to drive improvement to your security posture over time.

The Amadey Trojan Stealer, an active and prominent malware, first emerged on the cybersecurity landscape in 2018 and has maintained a persistent botnet infrastructure ever since. Several campaigns have used this malware, like the previous Splunk Threat Research blog related to RedLine loader, the multi-stage attack distribution article from McAfee in May 2023 and the campaign where it uses N-day vulnerabilities to deliver Amadey malware noted in March 2023 by DarkTrace.

We are extremely excited to introduce a new addition to the Splunk unified security operations experience: Splunk Attack Analyzer (formerly Twinwave), which automates threat analysis of suspected malware and credential phishing threats by identifying and extracting associated forensics to provide accurate and timely detections. SOC analysts continue to struggle to work across many security tools to help them understand and address threats targeting the organization.

We’re all juggling more complexity than ever before. Chances are you’re being pulled in multiple directions, working across teams and dealing with more tools than you’d like to. We know you want to keep everything running smoothly and don’t want to focus your time on setting things up, especially when you’re probably dealing with other fires.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our industry. At Splunk, we see it as a catalyst for driving digital resilience — a way to accelerate human decision making in service of incident detection, investigation and response.

Hi there, As organizations strive to enhance the cyber resilience of their operations, the scope of SOC teams is expanding beyond traditional enterprise IT.

As SOCs continue to grow and mature, it's vital that they establish effective and repeatable programs in proactive defense. This also means that threat hunting needs to become a critical function. Numerous advanced and sophisticated threats are able to get past more traditional cybersecurity defenses and SOCs need skilled Threat Hunters who are able to search, log, monitor, and remediate threats before they create a serious problem.