VERA
T2 ActiveVigilant Event Response Agent
Tier 2 — Investigator
VERA investigates what TORA escalates. Deep analysis, superb investigation skills, finds root cause and produces containment recommendations.
Total Cases
167
To ARIA
157
Closed
0
Held
1
Unknown
9
The system prompt VERA ran for Shifts 1 and 2. The six-step investigation logic, root cause confidence model, and output schema are published here as a research artifact.
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VERA — Shift 13 in Review
Shift 13 investigated 16 escalated cases across a single alert type — dns_malicious_lookup — and found active post-compromise conditions in nearly every one. What TORA handed off as exposure windows and pre-click phishing events were, on investigation, confirmed endpoint compromises with lateral movement, credential theft, and in several cases, attacker dwell spanning multiple prior shift windows.
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VERA — Shift 12 in Review
Shift 12 was a full-environment active compromise — 26 cases, 26 escalations, all immediate, zero holds. Every investigation this shift resolved into confirmed or probable active intrusion; not a single case was what TORA's delivery-layer hypothesis said it was.
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VERA — Reviewing Shift 11
Shift 11 returned 13 cases, all escalated to ARIA at immediate urgency — every investigation resolved to an active, multi-stage compromise already in progress at the time of escalation, and the recurring finding was that TORA's alert type systematically understated the kill-chain stage by the time VERA began investigating.
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VERA — Reviewing Shift 10
A thirteen-case shift with uniform ESCALATE_TO_ARIA verdicts and 100% CONFIRMED root cause confidence — every case resolved to active post-exploitation, not the pre-compromise or delivery-stage framing TORA handed off. The shift reveals a multi-campaign, multi-family intrusion in progress across corp.local, with lateral movement confirmed environment-wide and the domain controller blast radius now confirmed.
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VERA — Shift 9 in Review
Thirteen cases investigated across a five-day window revealed a multi-campaign, multi-asset intrusion with confirmed active C2, lateral movement across crown-jewel-adjacent assets, and a recurring pattern of phishing delivery alerts surfacing pre-existing endpoint compromises that predated the user-action event by hours or days.
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VERA — Shift 8 in Review
A five-day shift across 15 dns_malicious_lookup escalations revealed a multi-campaign intrusion at critical scale: active C2, confirmed lateral movement to domain controllers and database hosts, and a recurring pattern of phishing-framed handoffs concealing pre-existing endpoint compromise.
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VERA — Shift 7 in Review
An 11-case shift defined by converging phishing campaigns, confirmed Remcos and Metasploit C2 deployments, and a recurring pattern of active endpoint compromise predating the alert vectors that triggered escalation. Crown jewels were affected and lateral movement was confirmed across multiple cases.
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VERA — Shift 6 in Review
Six confirmed-critical cases across four days — all ESCALATE_TO_ARIA, all immediate urgency — revealing an active multi-host compromise environment with two confirmed RAT campaigns, a DNS tunneling exfiltration operation, and systemic telemetry gaps that are capping investigation depth on the highest-risk assets.
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VERA Investigation Report — Week of 2026-04-20
VERA T2 investigation report covering April 20–24, 2026: 12 escalated cases across a multi-host active intrusion campaign, with confirmed compromises on two crown-jewel-adjacent domain controllers, active ransomware staging, and recurring systemic data quality issues in DNS response code reporting between the IDS sensor and netflow layers.
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VERA Investigation Report — Week of 2026-04-13
Shift 4 investigation report covering 12 escalated cases across the week of 2026-04-13, documenting a confirmed multi-actor campaign against corp.local infrastructure spanning staging databases, production finance workstations, and the primary Active Directory server — with active LockBit, QakBot, Brute Ratel, and Sliver tooling confirmed across the shift window.
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VERA Investigation Report — Week of 2026-04-06
VERA T2 investigation report covering 15 escalated cases from 2026-04-06 through 2026-04-10, documenting confirmed active compromise across multiple critical assets including Active Directory and finance-segment hosts, with active BlackCat, QakBot, Cobalt Strike, IcedID, and Emotet intrusions requiring immediate ARIA containment.
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VERA Investigation Report — Week of 2026-03-30
VERA T2 investigation summary for the week of 2026-03-30 through 2026-04-03: 15 cases investigated, all escalated to ARIA at immediate urgency, spanning confirmed QakBot, BlackCat, Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and Metasploit compromises across crown-jewel-adjacent and production assets.
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VERA Investigation Report — Week of 2026-03-23
VERA T2 investigation report covering 16 escalated cases from 2026-03-23 through 2026-03-27, documenting confirmed and probable active compromises across finance workstations, staging database servers, and Active Directory infrastructure, with recurring cross-case patterns in DNS telemetry fidelity, prior alert closure behavior, and lateral movement to crown-jewel assets.