Exploring the Hugging Face Breach: mapping AI agent tactics to Elastic Defend
Every stage of the Hugging Face breach maps to Elastic Defend and SIEM rules already shipping, from worker RCE and credential harvest to self-migrating C2 an...
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Alert Zero: AI-driven alert triage and attack investigation for the agentic SOC
Elastic Security 9.5 gives SOC teams AI that handles first-pass alert triage and investigation, so analysts can get back to threat hunting and detection engi...
What's new in Elastic Defend: 800+ vulnerable driver rules, automated troubleshooting, and ARM support
Elastic Defend automatically generates and instantly deploys vulnerable driver YARA rules from VirusTotal, LOLDrivers and Microsoft's blocklist, closing the ...
Elastic goes all-in on Hacker Summer Camp at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas
Attack Discovery turns raw alerts into validated threats and Elastic Defend closes vulnerable driver gaps as fast as they're disclosed. Watch it all run agai...
Stop rewriting detection rules by hand: automatic Sentinel-to-Elastic migration is here
Elastic's first automatic migration from a modern SIEM. Translate your Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security without rebuilding them.
Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: How we cut AI agent LLM calls by 60%
We run fourteen AI agents that triage Elastic InfoSec alerts. They were taking 19 LLM calls to do work that needed 8.
Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: When to inline your agent's skills for a 5× cost reduction
We tested two agentic SOC architectures in parallel across 36,822 real Agent Builder conversations. One won by 5.
wp2shell hits WordPress: detecting pre-auth RCE from plugin drop to command execution
We ran the wp2shell WordPress RCE chain end-to-end with Elastic Defend. Detection rule walkthrough, IOCs, and hunt guidance.
How Elasticsearch ES|QL COMPLETION turns noisy curl and wget rules into high-fidelity cloud security alerts
Elastic InfoSec tested this detection rule pattern on their own cloud fleet, filtering noisy curl and wget events with deterministic logic and LLM triage so ...
New North Korean campaign uses fake coding interviews to steal developer credentials
DPRK-aligned hackers hid malware inside SVG flag images to backdoor developer job interview coding tests. Not one antivirus vendor caught it.
TELEPUZ: a modular MaaS malware spreading via CLICKFIX-VIDAR chains
TELEPUZ is a modular malware that emerged through CLICKFIX-VIDAR attacks in April. We reverse-engineered it to show you the infrastructure and evasion techni...
ClickFix to Cash-Out: Anatomy of a Mexican Banking-Fraud Toolkit
Elastic Security Labs tracks REF6045, an active operator-assisted banking fraud operation targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, ...
Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: cutting alert triage from 30 minutes to under 3
Elastic's InfoSec team built AI agents on Elastic Workflows that investigate every alert and assemble the case before an analyst ever opens it.
From vulnerability report to CVE draft in minutes: how Elastic automated security advisories with AI
How Elastic's security team built an AI agent with RAG against MITRE's CWE and CAPEC catalogues to draft CVE advisories from raw vulnerability reports, inclu...
Azure AD Graph Activity Logs: Ingestion and threat detection to close the visibility gap
Azure AD Graph Activity Logs land in Elastic with full ECS parsing. Detect ROADrecon and AADInternals enumeration with ready-to-use detection rules.
Lost in relocation: analysis of a new loader distributing CASTLESTEALER
Find out how a new obfuscated loader evades static detection using .reloc section abuse, five anti-VM/language checks and MBA obfuscation to deliver infostea...
From API key to live threat detections in minutes: how Elastic Security ingests Google Threat Intelligence
Find out how Elastic Security ingests Google Threat Intelligence for continuous detection and uses AI-driven workflows to enrich alerts in real time, from AP...
Detecting Tycoon 2FA AiTM attacks across Entra ID and Google Workspace
Tycoon 2FA bypasses MFA on Entra ID and Google Workspace. We map telemetry fingerprints across both platforms, ship detection rules for both tiers, and conta...
PHANTOMPULSE: anatomy of a hijackable blockchain-C2 RAT
Elastic Security Labs presents a detailed reverse-engineering analysis of PHANTOMPULSE, the long-lived RAT delivered to crypto-sector victims through the REF...
Elastic Security MCP App: Interactive security operations inside your AI Tools
Elastic Security is the first security vendor to ship an interactive UI in AI tools. Triage alerts, hunt threats, correlate attack chains, and open cases, al...