CrowdStrike’s mission is to stop breaches. We continuously research and develop technologies to outpace new and sophisticated threats and stop adversaries from pursuing attacks. We also recognize that security is best when it’s a team sport. In today’s threat landscape, technology collaboration is essential to deploy novel methods of analysis and defense.

Securing custom applications in a sea of vulnerabilities is daunting. To make the task even more challenging, the threat to applications continues to grow: 8 out of the top 10 data breaches last year were related to application attack surfaces.1 This blog details two effective strategies for identifying vulnerabilities in custom software applications so they can be quickly addressed.

CrowdStrike is committed to protecting our customers from the latest and most sophisticated cybersecurity threats. We are actively monitoring activity surrounding CVE-2024-3094, a recently identified vulnerability in XZ Utils.

Imagine you’re up against the world’s most advanced adversaries — those that use automation and AI, can drop malware in seconds and break out from compromised endpoints to navigate target environments in just over two minutes. This is a day in the life of a CrowdStrike SOC engineer.

Adversaries have long used social engineering to trick their victims into providing access or information not available to the public. Social engineering continues to prove effective and will likely be a major factor in breaches throughout 2024. The CrowdStrike Incident Response team has dealt with an anomalously high number of successful breaches that originated with social engineering tactics, and we strongly urge security teams to take precautions against them.

The increase in cloud adoption has been met with a corresponding rise in cybersecurity threats. Cloud intrusions escalated by a staggering 75% in 2023, with cloud-conscious cases increasing by 110%. Amid this surge, eCrime adversaries have become the top threat actors targeting the cloud, accounting for 84% of adversary-attributed cloud-conscious intrusions.

Cloud computing has become the backbone for modern businesses due to its scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. As organizations choose cloud service providers to power their technological transformations, they must also properly secure their cloud environments to protect sensitive data, maintain privacy and comply with stringent regulatory requirements.

CrowdStrike is today debuting CrowdStrike SEC Readiness Services to guide organizations along the path to compliance as they navigate the new SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules. These services, powered by the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform and industry-leading CrowdStrike Services team, give customers the insight they need to harden defenses, make materiality decisions and navigate the annual disclosure process with confidence.

Organizations worldwide rely on the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a critical resource for defending against cyberattacks. The MITRE ATT&CK framework is also a key tool for advancing threat research in the cybersecurity industry. However, one of the challenges in using the MITRE ATT&CK framework is mapping the output from logs, sensors and other tools as ATT&CK data sources in the framework.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud security, staying ahead of the curve is paramount. Today, we are announcing an exciting enhancement: CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security now supports Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot. This integration marks an important milestone in our commitment to providing cutting-edge DevSecOps-focused security and solutions for modern cloud environments.