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, ...
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Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: Choosing the right agent architecture for a 5x cost reduction
We ran two agentic SOC architectures head to head across 36,822 real Agent Builder conversations. One won by 5.
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...
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...
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.
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...
Copy Fail and DirtyFrag: Linux Page Cache Bugs in the Wild
This research analyzes the Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities Copy Fail and DirtyFrag, which exploit subtle page cache corruption bugs to crea...
Detecting Web Server Probing & Fuzzing in Traefik with Automated Cloudflare Response
This article shows how a customized Elastic Security ES|QL detection rule can identify web server probing and fuzzing activity in Traefik logs and automatica...
TCLBANKER: Brazilian Banking Trojan Spreading via WhatsApp and Outlook
REF3076 uses a trojanized Logitech installer to deploy TCLBANKER, a Brazilian banking trojan with environment-gated payloads, WPF fraud overlays, and self-pr...
Elastic Workflows GA: automation where your security data already lives
Elastic Workflows is generally available in 9.4, bringing production-ready security automation with deeper case management integration, human-in-the-loop sup...
Know who to watch before the incident finds you
Elastic Security v9.
AI-generated hunting leads: The hunt starts before you ask the question
Introducing AI-generated hunting leads, proactive, environment-aware threat hypotheses powered by Elastic Entity analytics and integrated AI reasoning.
Your UEBA is lying to you: Why entity record quality decides everything
Most entity analytics systems are confidently wrong. They track users who do not exist, generate risk scores built on noise, and call it behavioral analytics.
From plain English to production rule: AI-native Elasticsearch ES|QL detection in Elastic Security
Elastic Security now lets analysts describe a threat behavior in plain language and receive a complete, validated Elasticsearch ES|QL detection rule in retur...
Elastic Conversational Entity Analytics: threat hunting in a single conversation
Conversational Entity Analytics delivers Entity Analytics features as rich inline attachments and Canvas previews into Agent Builder, so you don’t have to le...
One agent, the right skills: Elastic Security 9.4 brings domain expertise on demand to every SOC workflow
Elastic Security 9.4 introduces skills, modular AI capabilities that teach the Elastic AI Agent how to detect, investigate, and hunt like a specialist.