THOR 10 Fusion has arrived. It replaces our successful scanners THOR 8 and SPARK and combines the best of both worlds. It is a completely new code base that features all modules of our 4 year old compromise assessment flagship THOR 8 and the speed and extra features...
THOR 10 Fusion – Major Changes
In anticipation of our new scanner THOR 10 Fusion, we would like to show you some of the exciting new features and upcoming changes. Modes and Feature Cleanup We've reviewed and reworked all scan modes in order to clarify the overview of active modules and features...
Upcoming : THOR 10 “Fusion”
We are proud to announce the upcoming release of THOR 10 code named "Fusion". It will replace our scanners THOR 8 and SPARK before the end of this year. Both of the current scanners will still receive updates until the end of this year. THOR 10 "Fusion" combines the...
THOR 8.53 Feature: Diff Mode
With the upcoming version 8.53 of THOR, we're testing a new feature called "Difference" or "Diff" mode (--diff). The idea behind "Diff" mode is that a scan could be much faster, if it would only consider elements that have been created or changed since the last scan...
Important Update Process Changes
As we have announced in May, the old "thor-upgrade.exe" is already out-of-support and the old update servers accessed by "thor-upgrade.exe" will be decommissioned at the end of October. The new all-round utility "thor-util.exe" now supports all of the features...
New Feature: THOR-util and SPARK-Core-util Signature Encryption
The new THOR-util version 1.2.4 supports the encryption of your custom signatures so that you can deploy your own IOC files and YARA rules in an encrypted form. We use a public key in the utilities to encrypt the files for our scanners so that admins, Antivirus...
ASGARD IOC Management
The upcoming ASGARD version 1.5 comes with a IOC management section in which you can manage your own set of IOCs in text files, YARA and Sigma rules.You can then select each of the folders when creating a new scan run with THOR or SPARK. Selecting one of these folders...
THOR Version 8.49.0 Changes
There are a few relevant changes in the upcoming THOR version 8.49.0 that we would like to announce. Interpreter and Module Upgrades The integrated Python interpreter will be upgraded to Version 2.7.15. We have also upgraded several modules. All our tests showed no...
THOR-Util with HTML Report Generation
The new version of "thor-util" (used with THOR/SPARK) / "spark-core-util" (used with SPARK Core) support a feature that allows a user to convert any scanner log file into a convenient report. Convert THOR / SPARK / SPARK Core scan logs into HTML reports Convert a...
THOR Util Replaces THOR-Upgrade
We are currently upgrading our update infrastructure in many different ways. We have added 2 new dedicated update servers - update1 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and update2 (Lenexa, USA). The old update locations will still be supported for a few months but have to be...
THOR 8.44 features TLS Syslog Transmission & ZIP YARA Scanning
The new THOR version 8.44 comes with some interesting new features. TLS/SSL Syslog Transmission THOR version 8.44.0 supports the Syslog log transmission in an SSL/TLS encrypted form. Just set the value "TCPTLS" as protocol in the 4th position of the target definition....
New THOR / SPARK License Packs
We have just recently released new, flexible and practice-oriented license packs for our scanners THOR and SPARK. These license packs will help you to get started as quickly as possible in case of an incident response, digital forensics engagement or compromise...