Set an Exploit to Catch an Exploit: Compiling Public Proofs of Concept into Threat Hunting Rules

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Muhammad Shoaib, Alexander Suh, Joshua Andrew Tomiak, Wajih Ul Hassan)

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.37872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public exploit code for a newly disclosed vulnerability usually appears before any published rule that detects its exploitation. Of the 45 CVEs we evaluate, 37 ever received a Sigma, Elastic or Splunk rule; in 33 the exploit came first, by a median of 22 days. Analysts still write every rule by hand.

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