Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, targeted, and complex. When it comes to sophisticated attacks, one of the most commonly seen tactics is Lateral Movement. During lateral movement, many attackers try impersonating a legitimate user by abusing admin tools (e.g., SMB, SAMBA, FTP, WMI, WinRM, and PowerShell Remoting) to move laterally from system to system in search of sensitive information. In addition, they may avoid using traditional malware to stay beneath the security radar, making
Version 8.6.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version over the 8.6.0 minor release.
The 8.6.1 release addresses a recent Elastic Cloud issue where a rolling restart would fail for some users.
For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to
