Arctic Wolf Labs

In-depth security, R&D, and threat intelligence for Arctic Wolf’s customer base and the security community at large.

Enriching the Aurora® Superintelligence Platform

Arctic Wolf Labs brings together elite security researchers, data scientists, and security development engineers together to help end cyber risk for organizations around the globe.

Leveraging trillions of security events the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud ingests, parses, enriches, and analyzes each week.

Arctic Wolf Labs:

Delivers cutting-edge threat intelligence and security research on new and emerging adversaries

New detection developments for sophisticated threats and zero-days vulnerabilities.

Develops advanced threat detection models aided by machine learning and artificial intelligence

Scalable and effective threat hunting by using both human analysis and automations to provide actionable insights.

Drives continuous improvement in the speed, scale, and detection efficacy of Arctic Wolf solutions

Augment our solutions with Security Analytics and Machine Learning (ML) developments.

Capabilities

Creating technology and solutions that will secure customers today and into the future.

Strategic Research and Tactical Investigations

Threat Actor Behaviors
- Threat Actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Malware and Ransomware Analysis

Operational Detections and Communication

New Detection Methods
Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)
Threat Hunting Leads

Cross-Vertical Application Threat Intelligence

Intelligence developed to address vertical concerns that is then applied cross-functionally to additional industries

Expertise

The Arctic Wolf Labs team encompasses decades worth of collective research knowledge, with achievements including:

Publications by Arctic Wolf Labs covering Artificial Intelligence (AI) security applications

Patents covering cybersecurity methods for various communication systems, big-data, machine learning applications

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Committee engagements including: NIST, TMLS, DEFCON, aggregate intellect

20+

Publications on machine and deep learning, quantum mechanics, mathematics, and game theory

40+

Sources:

1: NIST

2: TMSL

3: Aggregate Intellect

4: DEFCON

REPORT AVAILABLE!

2026 Arctic Wolf Labs Threat Report

Learn what’s new, what’s changed, and what’s ahead for the cybersecurity threat landscape with our in-depth research and observations.

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Arctic Wolf Labs Threat Intelligence Research

Featured Observations

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Dropping Elephant APT Group Targets Turkish Defense Industry With New Campaign and Capabilities: LOLBAS, VLC Player, and Encrypted Shellcode

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Venom Spider Uses Server-Side Polymorphism to Weave a Web Around Victims

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Console Chaos: A Campaign Targeting Publicly Exposed Management Interfaces on Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls

Strengthen Your Security Posture with Arctic Wolf Labs

Security R&D for the preventative pillar of your information security program – for network, endpoint, and cloud.

How We Help:

Vulnerability Risk

Detections

Create detections that scan and identify assets with vulnerable and out of date software and/or operating systems
Help prioritize which assets should be patched first by leveraging relevant customer contexts and Arctic Wolf Labs threat intelligence
vxIntel by Arctic Wolf - Malware intelligence platform enhances threat detection capabilities
Explore our tools:
Log4j (Log4Shell) Deep Scan Tool
Spring4Shell Deep Scan Tool

Configuration Risk and System Hardening Detections

Automated benchmarks highlight risky configurations that can be exploited on a range of asset types and operating systems
Increased visibility into your public cloud resources, including AWS, GCP, and Azure, to reduce risk of misconfiguration through Cloud Security Posture Management

Security Community Involvement

Major contributors to the Security Automation Protocol (SCAP) and Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL) working groups to enhance and increase adoption of a standard vulnerability definition language as leveraged by Arctic Wolf JOVAL engine
Regularly provide patches and vulnerability insights as part of the Microsoft Patch Tuesday OVALs
Provide open source-developed scanning tools in response to key major security events

Security Bulletins

Blog

CVE-2026-0300 — Critical Buffer Overflow in PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal

On May 6, 2026, Palo Alto Networks disclosed a critical buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) in the User-ID™ Authentication Portal (Captive