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Author: Michael Kavka

Defender, KQL and Lockbit

Posted on August 3, 2022 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Defender, KQL and Lockbit

Recently, SentinelOne had a blog post about how Lockbit Ransomware was using Windows Defender to side load Cobalt Strike. Considering that this technique I sat down to write up a query(that is available at my Github here) for a custom detection of this procedure based off the information in the SentinelOne Blog post. Here I…

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Do well, not be “popular”

Posted on March 9, 2022 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Do well, not be “popular”

I’ve had some things on my mind so this will turn into a rant or stream of consciousness. If you feel called out on this post, it happens. Hopefully this will help some others out there. See, I’ve spent the last 15 years, as I moved from a Network Engineer to a Security Engineer, trying…

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Defense Layers: A Case Study

Posted on October 28, 2021 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Defense Layers: A Case Study

Recently, I have been wondering why a site such as mail[.]ru(and it’s subdomains) is being blocked by Microsoft Exploit Guard’s Network Protection setting and not Umbrella. Considering that Network Protection does not give an actual block page, and instead a generic access denied page, it seems that the order of things were to blame. I…

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