Ask-a-Thrunter: June 2025 Recap 🐏

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Ask-a-Thrunter: June 2025 Recap 🐏

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Jul 01, 2025

🎧 Episode Title:

Ask-a-Thrunter: June 2025 Recap 🐏

🗓️ Release Date:

June 2025

📝 Episode Summary

The thrunters are back in high definition! In this June edition of Ask a Thrunter, the crew settles into a new virtual podcast studio, dishes out Dispatch Deep Cuts, and unveils a massive revamp to HEARTH, our collaborative GitHub project for threat hunting hypotheses.

We talk about our favorite (and most frustrating) log sources, how AI and automation are reshaping contribution workflows, and get real about visibility gaps in Chrome extensions. The Hunt Clinic is open with subscriber questions on Python notebooks for hunting, dream hunts that never got enough data, and our unanimous answer to “What tool would you kill in your stack?”

If you love chaos, practical tips, and community-powered threat hunting, you’re in the right place.

⏱️ Episode Breakdown

00:00 – Welcome to Ask a Thrunter (June Edition)
01:18 – Team intros: John, Sydney, Lauren
03:11 – DEF CON DJ meetup plans to see Brett (8PM local on 8/8)
03:51 – Shoutout to free, paid, and founding subscribers
05:28 – Icebreaker: Logs we love (and hate)
08:25 – HEARTH gets a full revamp: new frontend, database, auto-submission from CTI
12:05 – Leaderboard unveiled + swag potential
15:40 – Dispatch Deep Cuts
16:22 – Highlight: From the Fire Q1 FY25 (Lauren)
18:45 – Highlight: If I Were a Threat Hunter (Jordan Hind)
23:56 – Highlight: Red With Benefits (John)
26:48 – Shoutouts: Plugin & Extension Hunt (Sydney), Misinformation and the Intel Cycle (Sherpa), Purple Teaming the Fallout (John)
31:08 – Ask a Thrunter
31:42 – Ask a Thrunter: Hunts we wish we could do
33:38 – Ask a Thrunter: Python notebooks + PEAK
35:43 – Ask a Thrunter: One tool to kill in your stack
36:50 – Giveaway winner
41:37 – Wrap up & see you next month!

🎤 Hosts & Guests

Lauren Proehl (Host) – Global Head of Detection & Response at a Fortune 500 financial firm. Co-founder of THOR Collective.
Sydney Marrone (Host) – Principal Threat Hunter at a major software company. Co-founder of THOR Collective.
John Grageda (Host) – Red Teamer and original member of THOR. Brings a purple team/red team lens to threat hunting. Co-founder of THOR Collective.

🔗 Resources & Mentions

🛠️ HEARTH GitHub Project
🔥 From the Fire Q1 FY25 by Lauren Proehl
👀 If I Were a Threat Hunter by Jordan Hind
💻 Red With Benefits by John Grageda
🧩 Your Plugins and Extensions Are (Probably) Fine. Hunt Them Anyway by Sydney Marrone
🧠 Don't Let Mis(s) Information Take the Crown by Sherpa Intelligence
⚙️ Purple Teaming the Fallout: A Red Team Perspective on U.S. Infrastructure Risks Amid Israel-Iran Conflict by John Grageda
🎵 THOR Collective soundtrack brought to you by ELIPSCION (Brett)

📢 Call to Action

💬 Join the THOR Collective Discord (paid subscribers get access to live Q&A)
📬 Subscribe to the Dispatch
📝 Submit to HEARTH using your favorite CTI source
👕 Rep your THOR pride with merch (code: THRUNT20)
❓ Send your questions in for July’s Ask a Thrunter!