The Recon SOC recently worked an IR case involving the newly emerged Akira Ransomware Group. News didn't begin to break about this threat actor until May 7, 2023, but our investigation shows evidence this crew began this particular campaign in early-mid April.
Emergence of Akira Ransomware Group
May 10, 2023 12:54:20 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in Incident Response, Intel Sharing, ransomware
Every Organization Needs Centralized Logging
Oct 18, 2022 6:03:30 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in DFIR, Incident Response, Open Source, Defense, Monitoring, Graylog, Logging, Compliance
Logs are on the systems, why do I need this?
Because Digital Forensics & Incident Response is expensive -- likely the highest billable rate among most IT/security practices.
Why? Because it is a very skilled, but meticulous and time-consuming activity and my team has done our fair share of it. Most often, the bulk of the time is spent collecting often volatile evidence from countless systems in hopes that enough of the attacker activity is still traceable. The best evidence sources are often the ones least available at the time of the investigation -- logs. Why? Because they roll over, or get deleted, etc.
If I walked into an organization that had centralized logging, I could probably cut the IR effort in half because a huge amount of the data I need is there ready to be queried. This allows me to perform deeper forensic analysis only on systems that exhibited noteworthy activity.
Okta + LAPSUS$ Security Incident
Mar 22, 2022 8:11:44 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in Incident Response, Monitoring, Logging, Cloud, SSO
As many in the industry are now aware, Okta experienced a form of security breach back in January which the wider industry was unaware of until screenshots obtained by the LAPSUS$ group were posted on Twitter on March 21st, at 10:15pm CDT.
Scaling Enterprise Forensic Timelining
Oct 6, 2021 2:29:00 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in Automation, DFIR, Velociraptor, Incident Response, Forensics, Operations, SecOps, Security, SOC, Open Source
In July, Eric & Whitney gave a talk titled "Breaches Be Crazy" at the SANS DFIR Summit outlining Recon’s unique approach at scaling enterprise forensic timelining.
OPENSOC @ DEF CON 29
Aug 11, 2021 1:46:00 PM / by Kelley Wilds posted in DFIR, Incident Response, Forensics, Security, InfoSec, OpenSOC, DEFCON, Events, Training, Threat Hunting, ZeroTier
It’s that time of year again - DEF CON! We were thrilled to run OpenSOC again at DEF CON this year, even if it had to be virtual (fingers crossed we’re all in person again in 2022).
Detecting Threats with Graylog Pipelines - Part 3
Jan 15, 2021 2:14:00 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in Incident Response, Operations, SecOps, Security, SOC, InfoSec, Threat Hunting, Monitoring, Graylog
Now that we've normalized and enriched our events, let's get into the actual threat detection logic that brings SIEM-like features to open source Graylog.
Recon Launches SOC X
Oct 20, 2020 10:35:00 AM / by Kelley Wilds posted in DFIR, Incident Response, Forensics, SecOps, Security, InfoSec, Training, Threat Hunting, NDR
The Recon team is excited to announce the launch of SOC X™, the Professional SOC Team World Championship! The inaugural event will be on March 4, 2021.
Recon Launches Network Defense Range (NDR) Live Online
Oct 6, 2020 10:40:00 AM / by Kelley Wilds posted in DFIR, Incident Response, Forensics, SecOps, Security, InfoSec, Training, Threat Hunting, NDR, BlackHat
The Recon team is thrilled to announce our newest offering, NDR Live Online!
Securing Your Velociraptor Deployment
Sep 23, 2020 10:51:00 AM / by Whitney Champion posted in DFIR, Velociraptor, Incident Response, Forensics, Operations, SecOps, Security, InfoSec, Threat Hunting, DevOps, AWS, Cognito, Identity Aware Proxy
Our team are huge fans of Velociraptor. It's an incredibly powerful tool, for both DFIR and endpoint management. It currently supports Windows, Linux, and Mac endpoints, and BONUS: it's open source!
Integrating Thinkst Canaries with TheHive
Sep 16, 2020 11:33:00 AM / by Whitney Champion posted in Automation, DFIR, Incident Response, Forensics, SecOps, Canaries, InfoSec, Thinkst, Training, Python, TheHive, Cortex
We've been big fans of the Thinkst platform for a while now. We may have mentioned them a time or two :) Like many others, we get a lot of mileage out of their Canaries and Canary Tokens.