Elevate Cyber Defense with Qualys Advanced Hunting

Qualys introduces its EDR Advanced Hunting capability and demonstrates, via a controlled "Detect Only" lab run, how predefined hunting queries can identify a ransomware infection: a downloaded 'WinUpdater.exe' spawns cmd/powershell to create persistence and firewall rules, then launches 'bmatter.exe' which renames files (ransomware behavior). The report provides process/registry/network artifacts, example QQL queries, and investigative steps analysts can use to detect similar threats across endpoints.