Seven of the thirteen Linux privilege escalation CVEs we tracked in 2026 turned out to be the same copy-on-write bug pointed at different kernel interfaces. We ran the public proof-of-concept for eleven exploits and two misconfigurations, and noted which rules fired.

Getting data into a security platform is always easy; getting it back out is where vendors add cost, extra tooling, and latency, and it is the part of the evaluation most teams overlook.

Elastic's InfoSec team runs three agents that read the detection rule's investigation guide and the closure reasons on 30 days of past cases. Analysts now clear most alerts with a single click in Slack.

Inside Elastic Security, background jobs called maintainers each own one piece of every user, host and service record, from building entities out of raw logs to resolving identities and scoring risk.

Agent-parented reverse tunnels and LaunchAgents can expose a local admin app to the internet. Endpoint still needs to treat that as high severity even when the activity looks like vibe-coded ops, not confirmed malware.

A 40-line CEL integration snapshots .npmrc files every 6 hours to catch cooldown removals. This post walks through the three ways we broke filestream before landing on snapshot semantics.

Elastic Security Labs identified the return of Shai-Hulud. Attackers compromised the keyv maintainer and deployed CHAINDROP, a worm that uses stolen npm credentials to backdoor co-owned packages totaling over 1.3 billion monthly downloads.

Public leaderboards can't tell you which LLM to trust in your SOC, so Elastic built an evaluation framework that grades models on the work (tool calls, execution traces, blind judging) across Agent Builder, Attack Discovery, and automatic migration.

LLMs made it cheap to flood bug bounty programs with submissions. Here's how Elastic built an AI triage agent that matches human decisions 85% of the time, including the architecture, threat model and calibration against 3,300 real reports

Elastic Security now tracks every detection rule change with one-click rollback and makes case data queryable out of the box, so SOC teams get audit trails and reporting without configuring anything.

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 against real attacks at the booth.

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 engineering instead of working through queue noise.

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 and GenAI detection.

Elastic Defend automatically generates and instantly deploys vulnerable driver YARA rules from VirusTotal, LOLDrivers and Microsoft's blocklist, closing the gap BYOVD attacks depend on. Plus a new troubleshooting skill and ARM endpoint protection.

Elastic's first automatic migration from a modern SIEM. Translate your Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security without rebuilding them.

We run fourteen AI agents that triage Elastic InfoSec alerts. They were taking 19 LLM calls to do work that needed 8. Here's the five-step optimization loop we run across the fleet, plus the prompt template you can use with any AI assistant.

We tested two agentic SOC architectures in parallel across 36,822 real Agent Builder conversations. One won by 5.7x: a specialized workflow triaging alerts for $0.69 each, against $3.42 for a single agent juggling 14 Skills. The data and the decision framework are both below.

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 only genuine threats reach an analyst.

We ran the wp2shell WordPress RCE chain end-to-end with Elastic Defend. Detection rule walkthrough, IOCs, and hunt guidance.

DPRK-aligned hackers hid malware inside SVG flag images to backdoor developer job interview coding tests. Not one antivirus vendor caught it.

TELEPUZ is a modular malware that emerged through CLICKFIX-VIDAR attacks in April. We reverse-engineered it to show you the infrastructure and evasion techniques that matter.

Elastic Security Labs tracks REF6045, an active operator-assisted banking fraud operation targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges.

Find out how a new obfuscated loader evades static detection using .reloc section abuse, five anti-VM/language checks and MBA obfuscation to deliver infostealer malware via Google Ads.

Azure AD Graph Activity Logs land in Elastic with full ECS parsing. Detect ROADrecon and AADInternals enumeration with ready-to-use detection rules.

Find out how Elastic Security ingests Google Threat Intelligence for continuous detection and uses AI-driven workflows to enrich alerts in real time, from API key to live detections in minutes.

Tycoon 2FA bypasses MFA on Entra ID and Google Workspace. We map telemetry fingerprints across both platforms, ship detection rules for both tiers, and contain incidents in under 10 seconds with Elastic Workflows.

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, all from inside your AI conversation.

This research analyzes the Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities Copy Fail and DirtyFrag, which exploit subtle page cache corruption bugs to create reliable paths to root access. Additionally, Elastic Security Labs is releasing detection logic for these vulnerabilities.

This article shows how a customized Elastic Security ES|QL detection rule can identify web server probing and fuzzing activity in Traefik logs and automatically block the attacking IP via Cloudflare.

REF3076 uses a trojanized Logitech installer to deploy TCLBANKER, a Brazilian banking trojan with environment-gated payloads, WPF fraud overlays, and self-propagating WhatsApp and Outlook worm modules.

Elastic Workflows is generally available in 9.4, bringing production-ready security automation with deeper case management integration, human-in-the-loop support, natural language authoring, and more.

Elastic Security v9.4 introduces Entity Analytics Watchlists, a way to codify what your team already knows about high-risk entities and feed that context directly into risk scoring, without custom pipelines or detection engineering overhead

Introducing AI-generated hunting leads, proactive, environment-aware threat hypotheses powered by Elastic Entity analytics and integrated AI reasoning.

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. Learn why the entities records you don't create matter as much as the ones you do and how a confidence-tiered model changes the game.

Elastic Security now lets analysts describe a threat behavior in plain language and receive a complete, validated Elasticsearch ES|QL detection rule in return, no query expertise required.

Conversational Entity Analytics delivers Entity Analytics features as rich inline attachments and Canvas previews into Agent Builder, so you don’t have to leave the conversation.

Elastic Security 9.4 introduces skills, modular AI capabilities that teach the Elastic AI Agent how to detect, investigate, and hunt like a specialist. This is how they work, and why they matter for the SOC.

Learn how to perform distributed, real-time Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) using Osquery and Elastic to investigate threats at scale without relying on disk imaging.

How we built an open-source, drop-in CI template that uses signal extraction and LLM reasoning to catch CI/CD abuse in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps pipelines.