How to Use Splunk to Detect Ransomware Attacks

Eray ALTILI
4 min readJan 7, 2022

Ransomware has become a huge problem in the last few years, and the task of detecting it remains a challenge. This post provides some examples of SIEM rules for detecting common ransomware behaviors, including high-frequency file deletion, process termination and service termination, as well as ransomware extensions files and more.

Add Ransomware Detection Rules to Your SIEM

The security teams using a SIEM solution (such as Splunk, Elk or ArcSight) to detect various stages of a ransomware attack.

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Eray ALTILI

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