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defense-threat-hunting
Hunt for intrusions no alert fired on — hypothesis-driven, ATT&CK-guided searching across EDR and logs. Load for "threat hunt", "are we compromised", "hunt for <technique>", proactive blue-team work, or turning threat intel into a hunt. Complements detection engineering: hunts find the gaps, then become detections.
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# Threat hunting
## When it applies
You suspect activity that evaded detections, or you want to proactively look for a specific
technique/actor. Hunting assumes breach and searches telemetry for evidence, rather than waiting for
an alert.
## Why it works
Detections encode what you already anticipated; hunting finds what you didn't. Framing a falsifiable
hypothesis around an ATT&CK technique focuses the search on data that would prove or disprove
compromise, and every confirmed pattern becomes a new detection — so coverage grows.
## Method
1. **Form a hypothesis**: specific and testable — "an adversary is using WMI for lateral movement