We’re introducing Forwarding Profiles in THOR Cloud Enterprise — a feature designed to streamline how scan results are delivered to external systems such as SIEMs, log collectors, or analysis platforms. Rather than downloading logs manually or relying on intermediate...
According to recent reports, cyberattacks rose by 75% in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in the previous year and by 15% compared to the second quarter of 2024. This alarming trend clearly shows that companies are more than ever required to...
We just launched THOR-Cloud Lite our new free, lightweight and easy to deploy on-demand compromise assessment scanner. Allowing you to access your scans and reports from everywhere at any time. Licensing, scan campaigns and reports everything is conveniently managed...
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...
We are proud to announce the integration of our private Sigma rule set in Valhalla. This rule set is used in our scanner THOR and endpoint agent Aurora. The rule set currently contains more than 250 quality-tested and generic rules written by Nextron's detection...
Nextron Systems has always supported the Sigma project, investing hundreds of work hours into creating and maintaining the community rules shared in the public Sigma rule repository. Apart from the community support, we've created a set of internal detection rules for...
The Follina 0day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190) in Microsoft Windows is actively exploited in-the-wild and highly critical. This blog posts lists some important web resources and the signatures that detect exploitation attempts.Kevin's post contains links to tweets of...
After almost half a year of development, we are pleased to announce the release of our free version of the Aurora Agent named Aurora Lite. The Aurora agent is a Sigma-based endpoint agent that offers maximum transparency, flexibility, and confidentiality. It doesn't...
The following recorded video session includes information about our new Sigma-based EDR agent called "Aurora" and the free "Aurora Lite". It's a preview of the agent with information on its features, limits, advantages and a live demo. The release is scheduled for...
A new version of THOR Seed improves the integration with Microsoft Defender ATP by handling the script termination caused by exceeded timeouts. Due to a runtime limit for all scripts in the Live Response library we had to configure previous versions of THOR Seed to...
We are glad to announce significant performance improvements in the latest versions of THOR. We've refactored several processing units to bulk scan elements that have previously been checked each at a time. These changes affect the modules "Eventlog", "Registry",...
Our compromise assessment scanner THOR is able to apply Sigma rules during the local Eventlog analysis. This can help any customer that has no central SIEM system or performs a live forensic analysis on a system group that does not report to central monitoring. By...
We constantly improve the quality of our products and services, add features and create new bundles. Follow ups with our customers showed that not all of these changes reach their attention. They are often surprised and excited to hear about these features, free tools...
The new THOR-util version 1.2.4 supports the encryption of your custom signatures so that you can deploy your own IOC files and YARA rules in an encrypted form. We use a public key in the utilities to encrypt the files for our scanners so that admins, Antivirus...
Sigma is a rule format for threat detection in log files. It is for log data what "Snort rules" are for network traffic or "YARA signatures" are for file data. It is easy to write and read. Writing a Sigma rule is a matter of minutes. On the right you can see a simple...