Release Notes

Version 6.2.0 (August 2026)

  • Added Python 3.13 compatibility while retaining Python 3.9 / existing Splunk support.
    • Replaced the six compatibility shim with the standard library urllib.parse.
    • Fixed an invalid regular-expression escape sequence (raw-string) flagged under Python 3.12+.
    • Search command, alert action, and REST handler stanzas now declare python.required = 3.13, 3.9 alongside python.version = python3.
    • Splunk Enterprise compatibility updated to 10.2.x, 10.4.x.

Enhancements

  • Alert tuning updates
    • Windows - EDR Service Stopped: added a 5-minute service-stop threshold to reduce noise.
    • Ransomware - Common Ransomware File Extensions: added parent process to the results.
    • O365 - Bulk Email Deletion: added source IP field to the results.
    • Basic Network Scanning: results now list all destination IPs.
  • Removed duplicate alert stanzas
    • Some alerts existed under both an old and a renamed current name at the same time, causing the same detection to fire twice (duplicate notables/emails). Removed the redundant legacy stanza in each case:
      • Sysmon - Network Reconnaissance or Packet Capture Tool Execution (superseded by Windows - Network Reconnaissance or Packet Capture Tool Execution)
      • Sysmon - PowerShell Encoded Command Detection (superseded by Windows - PowerShell Encoded Command Detected)
      • Sysmon - Suspicious Privilege Escalation Command Detected (superseded by Windows - Suspicious Privilege Escalation Command Detected)
      • Sysmon - Suspicious Script Host Execution Detected (superseded by Windows - Suspicious Script Host Execution Detected)
      • Windows - Malicious Process from Office Applications (superseded by Sysmon - Malicious Process from Office Applications)
  • Windows authentication alerts accuracy improvements
    • Failed-logon detection now requires a specific Failure_Reason (bad password / logon type not granted) or a Kerberos pre-auth failure (EventCode=4776, Error_Code=0xC000006A), reducing false positives from unrelated 4625/4776 events.
    • Excluded Kerberos-only events from brute-force-by-user and brute-force-by-source authentication alerts.
    • Account name is now resolved via coalesce(Account_Name, Logon_Account) before filtering out machine accounts.
    • Adjusted several Windows alert dispatch windows to a consistent -17m@m to -2m@m search range.
    • Widened the dispatch window to -2h@m+2h@m for Windows - Multiple Host Login Failures by User, Windows - Multiple Failed Logins by User, and Windows - Multiple Failed Logins from One Source IP (the search itself still scopes matched events to the -17m@m-2m@m window internally via _index_earliest/_index_latest).
    • O365 / authentication brute-force and impossible-travel alerts now exclude win:unknown app noise in addition to OktaIM2:log.
  • Web dashboard/alert noise reduction
    • Added cs_web_filter_sources macro excluding sophos:xg:content_filtering, pan:threat, and fortigate_utm sourcetypes from Web datamodel-based alerts (unusual request patterns, unusual user agents, sensitive path access, brute force, exploit attempts, Spring4Shell detection).
  • SOAR field mapping
    • Added src_ips, Source_Address and sources fields to the SOAR/CIM-to-CEF field mapping list (both map to sourceAddress).
  • SOAR forwarding action improvements and bug fix
    • Fixed bug related to one notable event posted one container but posting many artifacts over and over again.
    • Performance improvement.
    • Duplicated code execution has been removed.
  • Product Setup page improvements
    • Multi-value fields are now displayed comma-separated.
    • Data review panels now refresh when the time range is changed for a product.
    • Fixed slow loading on the Product Setup page by using summariesonly=true for the sourcetype discovery search.

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