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July 11, 2019

A Blue Team guide to Azure & Office 365 monitoring - Blue-Team - 0x00sec - The Home of the Hacker
Because Azure and Office 365 are widely used, I decided to start with this. I hope you will find it useful because unfortunately, there is a lack of good resources other than Microsoft when it comes to monitoring Azure with a SIEM and I had to spend many hours to study the logs and figure out what was relevant.
A Basic Model to Measure SIEM Maturity
There’s no need to reinvent the wheel to create this model of measurement, but analysts must be able to catalog and group the characteristics they aim to measure to determine what level of SIEM implementation is appropriate for the organization.
Threat use cases by log source type
Click a check mark in the following matrix to go to the log source that you're most interested in. For each log source, the relevant ATT&CK framework categories are listed. The Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) framework was developed by Mitre Corp.
Talos Blog || Cisco Talos Intelligence Group - Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: DNSpionage Campaign Targets Middle East
Cisco Talos recently discovered a new campaign targeting Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) affecting .gov domains, as well as a private Lebanese airline company. Based on our research, it's clear that this adversary spent time understanding the victims' network infrastructure in order to remain under the radar and act as inconspicuous as possible during their attacks.
Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale « Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale | FireEye Inc
FireEye’s Mandiant Incident Response and Intelligence teams have identified a wave of DNS hijacking that has affected dozens of domains belonging to government, telecommunications and internet infrastructure entities across the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America. While we do not currently link this activity to any tracked group, initial research suggests the actor or actors responsible have a nexus to Iran.