CPE
Suspicious Child Processes of consent.exe
1 rule 3 TTPs 1 CVEDetection of unauthorized child process creation by the Windows UAC consent.exe binary, a common indicator of UAC bypass and privilege escalation activity.
Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process Activity
1 rule 3 TTPs 1 CVEMicrosoft Office applications are frequently abused to spawn system processes to execute malicious code, download payloads, or facilitate privilege escalation.
Microsoft Addresses Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in July 2026 Patch Tuesday
8 TTPs 4 CVEs 8 IOCsMicrosoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 622 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-day elevation of privilege flaws, CVE-2026-56155 in Active Directory Federation Services and CVE-2026-56164 in SharePoint, allowing local and remote attackers to gain administrative control.
CVE-2026-63030: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in WordPress Core
2 TTPs 15 CVEs 8 IOCsCVE-2026-63030 is a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting WordPress Core versions 6.9.0 through 6.9.4 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code via the WordPress REST API batch endpoint, potentially leading to complete website compromise.
Microsoft Security Updates — July 2026
10 CVEs 227 IOCsRoundup of Microsoft security advisories published in July 2026.
Potential Privileged Escalation via SamAccountName Spoofing (CVE-2021-42278)
2 rules 1 TTP 1 CVEThis rule detects potential privilege escalation attempts by exploiting CVE-2021-42278, which involves spoofing the samAccountName attribute to impersonate a domain controller and elevate privileges from a standard domain user to a domain administrator by identifying suspicious computer account name rename events where a machine account name is renamed to a user-like account name.
Potential Privilege Escalation via InstallerFileTakeOver (CVE-2021-41379)
2 rules 1 TTP 1 CVEThis rule detects potential exploitation of the InstallerTakeOver vulnerability (CVE-2021-41379), where successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM.
DNS Kerberos Coercion Attempt Detection
3 rules 3 TTPs 4 CVEs 4 IOCsThis brief details the detection of DNS-based Kerberos coercion attacks, where adversaries inject marshaled credential structures into DNS records to spoof SPNs and redirect authentication, as seen in CVE-2025-33073, using Suricata and Sysmon event ID 22.