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14. 03. 2025 Daniel Degasperi Blue Team, Log-SIEM, SEC4U

A Practical Approach to Detect Suspicious Activity in MS SQL Server

This article gives an overview and offers a practical tips to detecting some suspicious activities in Microsoft SQL Server, from configuring audit policies to leveraging Elastic for effective monitoring and threat detection. Introduction Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely used relational databases in the enterprise landscape, managing critical data and supporting essential…

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30. 08. 2024 Daniel Degasperi Blue Team, SEC4U

A Concrete Example of ES|QL and SOC Detection Rules

The purpose of this article is to show a real-life case study of the integration of the new Elastic ES|QL language within the detection rules used by the SOC to detect cyber threats. Overview ES|QL (Elasticsearch Query Language) is an SQL-like query language developed by Elastic specifically for querying time series and event data stored…

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24. 05. 2024 Daniel Degasperi Blue Team, SEC4U

How To Detect a Chromium Browser Stealer With Elastic

In this blog, I’ll propose and describe a solution for detecting potential infostealers targeting Chromium-based browsers, taking a cue from the research exposed by Google’s Chrome Security Team (Detecting browser data theft using Windows Event Logs). Obviously a solution using Elastic 🙂 ! What is an Infostealer (in a nutshell) ? In the realm of…

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