Corelight Bright Ideas Blog: NDR & Threat Hunting Blog

Spotting Log4j traffic in Kubernetes environments

By Stan Kiefer – May 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of posts we have planned over the next several weeks where we explore topics such as network monitoring in Kubernetes, using sidecars to sniff and tunnel traffic, show a real-world example of detecting... Read more »

Application Layer Infrastructure Visibility in IaaS

By Ricky Lin – February 10, 2022

The migration to cloud provides faster time to deployment and elasticity, but often at some cost and complexity to infrastructure control and visibility. A concrete example we can use is a deployment of web servers with rational security group... Read more »

Security strategy for the next Log4Shell

By Brian Dye – December 22, 2021

Last week I had the privilege to be in Washington, DC talking to a group of defenders. I heard a clear pattern of words: “data-driven,” “telemetry-first,” and “visibility”. The defenders were focused on having the right telemetry to investigate both... Read more »

Detecting Log4j exploits via Zeek when Java downloads Java

By Corelight Labs Team – December 18, 2021

We have published an initial blog on the Log4j exploit and a followup blog with a second detection method for detecting the first stage of exploits occurring over LDAP. Today, we will discuss a third detection method, this one focused on the... Read more »

Detecting Log4j via Zeek & LDAP traffic

By Corelight Labs Team – December 16, 2021

We recently discussed some methods for detecting the Log4j exploit, and we’ve now developed another method that everyone running Zeek® or a Corelight sensor can use. Our new approach is based on the rarity of legitimate downloads of Java via LDAP.... Read more »

Simplifying detection of Log4Shell

By Corelight Labs Team – December 14, 2021

Security workers across the world have been busy since last Friday dealing with CVE-2021-44228, the log4j 0-day known as Log4Shell, that is already being heavily exploited across the Internet. Given the huge number of systems that embed the... Read more »