Corelight Bright Ideas Blog: NDR & Threat Hunting Blog

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 »

Situational awareness for CISA FECB playbooks

By Jean Schaffer – November 30, 2021

CISA recently released a set of playbooks for the Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) to provide improved cybersecurity incident response (IR) and vulnerability response. As was demonstrated by the SolarWinds SUNBURST attack in December 2020,... Read more »

Detecting CVE-2021-42292

By Corelight Labs Team – November 10, 2021

On its surface, CVE-2021-42292 doesn’t look like the kind of vulnerability that a network-based tool can find reliably. Marked by Microsoft as a local file format vulnerability, security veterans would expect that between encryption and encoding,... Read more »

Expanded Suricata detections with Dtection.io

By Alex Kirk – November 4, 2021

One of the most common questions that Corelight customers and prospects who are using our Suricata integration ask is “what signatures should I run?” While our answer has always started with the industry-standard Emerging Threats Pro feed, we... Read more »

Microsoft + Corelight partner to stop IoT attacks

By Ed Smith – November 2, 2021

When you hear the term “Internet of Things,” (IoT) do you picture home devices like lightbulbs, smart assistants, and wifi-connected refrigerators? Perhaps you think of enterprise devices like video conferencing systems, smart sensors, or security... Read more »

Smart PCAP and threat detection in the cloud

By John Gamble – August 3, 2021

I am thrilled to publicly launch Corelight software version 22, which introduces a transformative new security product, Smart PCAP, and also enables threat detection in the cloud by extending Corelight’s Open NDR support for Suricata across... Read more »

Telegram Zeek, you’re my main notice

By Yacin Nadji – July 28, 2021

Notices in Zeek Zeek’s Notice Framework enables network operators to specify how potentially interesting network findings can be reported. This decoupling of detection and reporting highlights Zeek’s flexibility: a notice-worthy event in network A... Read more »

What’s next for the National Cyber Director?

By Jean Schaffer – July 14, 2021

As the first National Cyber Director begins to settle into office, private industry is very hopeful that this will be one of the turning points to solidify a true private/public partnership for raising the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. As I... Read more »

PrintNightmare, SMB3 encryption, and your network

By Corelight Labs Team – July 7, 2021

CVE-2021-1675, also tracked in CVE-2021-34527, is a remote code execution vulnerability that targets the Windows Print Spooler service. In a nutshell, there is a Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Call (DCE/RPC) that allows... Read more »