All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Incident Response, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
A newly identified ransomware group called Spirals has demonstrated alarming operational speed, completing the full attack lifecycle — initial access, lateral movement, data theft, and network-wide encryption — in less than 24 hours.
Latvia's state-owned forest management company LVM remains in recovery mode weeks after a ransomware attack that went undetected for nearly two weeks,...
Professional services giant Accenture confirms it contained a security incident after a threat actor claimed to have stolen source code from the company,...
A new Go-based ransomware operation named Prinz Eugen targets recently modified files first, uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption, and communicates with...
Deploy Shuffle, the open-source SOAR platform, to automate security workflows and orchestrate your homelab tools — from Wazuh alerts to enrichment lookups...
Authorized bug bounty research on ServiceNow inadvertently triggered security alerts that led organizations to believe they were actively being breached....
Deploy a full Wazuh stack in Docker to gain host-based intrusion detection, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and active response across your…
Dashlane's security systems automatically locked affected accounts to protect users after a brute-force attack resulted in a limited number of encrypted vault…
A composite case study of a typical 2026 ransomware incident hitting a Canadian agricultural business — from the first phishing email through full encryption…
Deploy Velociraptor for endpoint visibility, run fleet-wide hunts, collect forensic artifacts, and accelerate incident response with VQL queries.
Cisco has released a new open source toolkit designed to track and verify the provenance of AI models throughout the supply chain, addressing risks from...
When rival ransomware groups 0APT and KryBit turned on each other, they exposed infrastructure details, operational data, victim lists, and internal...
Itron, Inc. has disclosed a cybersecurity incident via SEC Form 8-K in which an unauthorized third party accessed certain internal systems at the utility...
Backups protect your data, but they don't keep your business running during downtime. Understanding the difference between backup and BCDR is critical as...
Deploy Velociraptor — the open-source DFIR platform — to collect forensic artifacts, run live endpoint hunts with VQL, and build an incident response...
Deploy Zeek (formerly Bro) on Linux to passively monitor network traffic, generate structured logs, write detection scripts, and forward data to your SIEM...
The Netherlands Ministry of Finance has taken its treasury banking portal offline after detecting a cyberattack that went undetected for roughly two...
A cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker remotely wiped tens of thousands of employee devices using only legitimate Microsoft tools — no malware...
Step-by-step guide to deploying Wazuh as an open-source SIEM and XDR platform. Covers server installation, agent deployment across Windows and Linux,...
End-to-end SOC guide for Microsoft Sentinel: build KQL-based scheduled and NRT analytics rules, wire automation rules for incident triage, and deploy...
Organizations face security risks from unauthorized applications, malware disguised as legitimate software, and shadow IT installations that bypass...
This document provides a comprehensive comparison between SentinelOne Singularity Control and Singularity Complete SKUs to help MSP teams understand the...
SentinelOne exclusion policies allow security teams to prevent false-positive detections and performance issues by excluding specific files, folders,...
Organizations using SentinelOne Singularity Complete receive 14-365+ days of Deep Visibility EDR data retention by default. This historical telemetry...
Deep Visibility is SentinelOne's EDR telemetry engine that provides comprehensive endpoint data collection for threat hunting, incident investigation, and...
During threat investigations, security analysts need to retrieve suspicious files from endpoints for deeper forensic analysis. Traditional methods...
Traditional endpoint protection focuses on file-based malware, but network-based attacks (lateral movement, command-and-control callbacks, port scanning,...
This document provides comprehensive procedures for forensic evidence collection, ransomware rollback, and threat remediation using SentinelOne Complete...
Proactive threat hunting is essential for identifying sophisticated threats that evade automated detection systems. This script automates the process of...
This runbook provides a standardized process for onboarding new MSP clients to SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Following this methodology ensures...
This guide provides comprehensive best practices for configuring SentinelOne policies in MSP environments managing multiple client sites with Singularity...
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face overwhelming alert volumes, complex threat investigations, and resource constraints. Analysts spend hours writing...
Modern enterprise networks contain a complex mix of managed endpoints (workstations, servers), IoT devices (IP cameras, printers, smart building systems),...
Full Remote Shell is a SentinelOne Complete feature that provides authorized administrators with secure, native command-line access to managed endpoints...
SentinelOne detects suspicious files but automated malware analysis requires sandbox integration. Manually uploading files to VirusTotal, Joe Sandbox, or...
Storyline Active Response (STAR) is SentinelOne's cloud-based automated hunting, detection, and response engine that allows security teams to create...
When SentinelOne detects a threat on an endpoint, security analysts must quickly investigate the alert to determine if it's a genuine malware infection,...
Understanding the complete attack chain requires correlating hundreds of events (process creation, network connections, file modifications, registry...
Step-by-step incident response checklist following NIST SP 800-61 framework. Covers preparation, detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and...
Information management giant Iron Mountain clarifies that alleged 1.4TB breach was limited to marketing materials after single credential compromise.
Complete ransomware incident response playbook following NIST framework. Covers detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned.
Learn to analyze Windows Security Event Logs to detect brute force attacks, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and other security threats using PowerShell.