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Supercharging Postfix With THOR Thunderstorm

Supercharging Postfix With THOR Thunderstorm

Have you already heard about THOR Thunderstorm,  a self-hosted THOR as a service? In this blog post, we will show how you can leverage THOR Thunderstorm to level up your email infrastructure security.THOR Thunderstorm is a web API wrapped around THOR, which accepts...

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Demystifying SIGMA Log Sources

Demystifying SIGMA Log Sources

One of the main goals of Sigma as a project and Sigma rules specifically has always been to reduce the gap that existed in the detection rules space. As maintainers of the Sigma rule repository we're always striving for reducing that gap and making robust and...

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Log4j Evaluations with ASGARD

We've created two ASGARD playbooks that can help you find Log4j libraries affected by CVE-2021-44228 (log4shell) and CVE-2021-45046 in your environment. Both playbooks can be found in our public Github repository.  We've created a playbook named "log4j-analysis" that...

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YARA Rules to Detect Uncommon System File Sizes

YARA is an awesome tool especially for incident responders and forensic investigators. In my scanners I use YARA for anomaly detection on files. I already created some articles on "Detecting System File Anomalies with YARA" which focus on the expected contents of...

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APT Detection is About Metadata

People often ask me, why we changed the name of our scanner from "IOC" to "APT" scanner and if we did that only for marketing reasons. But don't worry, this blog post is just as little a sales pitch as it is an attempt to create a new product class. I'll show you why...

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How to Write Simple but Sound Yara Rules

How to Write Simple but Sound Yara Rules

During the last 2 years I wrote approximately 2000 Yara rules based on samples found during our incident response investigations. A lot of security professionals noticed that Yara provides an easy and effective way to write custom rules based on strings or byte...

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Sysmon Example Config XML

Sysmon is a powerful monitoring tool for Windows systems. Is is not possible to unleash all its power without using the configuration XML, which allows you to include or exclude certain event types or events generated by a certain process. Use the configuration to...

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