As organizations expand their cloud-native initiatives and increase their use of containers and Kubernetes in production, they face challenges regarding container security, monitoring, data management and networking. To meet this growing need, we’re pleased to announce our certification of Red Hat OpenShift through the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform — giving joint customers comprehensive breach protection for OpenShift nodes, workloads and containers.

In support of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published a Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 23-01, designed to improve cybersecurity for the Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) enterprise and their respective unclassified assets.

DirtyCred is a new Linux kernel exploitation technique that allows kernel Use After Free (UAF) or Double free vulnerabilities to swap a credential or file structure on the kernel heap memory to escalate privileges to root. The replaced credential or file structure provides root access on a Linux host and breaks out of the container at the same time. Ph.D.

What if you could easily extend the retention of your CrowdStrike Falcon® detection data for a year or longer? Would that help with compliance? Investigations? Threat hunts? In Part 1 of this series, we covered the basics of Falcon Long Term Repository (Falcon LTR). To recap, Falcon LTR is an option available to Falcon customers. It offers a simple and cost-effective way to retain your Falcon detection data long term, which has historically been a costly and complex endeavor for security teams.

Threat hunters and security teams need more data about the IT environment to add context to their investigations. To add that additional information to your Falcon environment, Falcon Data Replicator (FDR) gives you a way to pull raw event data from the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. Now, customers can ingest, transform and analyze the data as part of their standard process.

The rapid proliferation of cloud technology has empowered organizations to meet complex challenges with innovative solutions. This flexibility, however, is the antithesis of security — each new cloud solution that an organization adopts expands their attack surface.

The market-leading CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, applying a combination of advanced machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and deep analytics across the trillions of security events captured in the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, has identified a new supply chain attack pattern during the installation of a chat based customer engagement platform.

The CrowdStrike Falcon Complete™ managed detection and response (MDR) team recently uncovered a creative and opportunistic interpretation of a watering hole attack that leverages GitHub to gain access to victim organizations. In the observed cases, there were no phishing emails, no exploitation of public-facing vulnerabilities, no malvertising and no compromised credentials.

In Part 1 of this four-part blog series examining wiper malware, the CrowdStrike Endpoint Protection Content Research Team introduced the topic of wipers, reviewed their recent history and presented common adversary techniques that leverage wipers to destroy system data. In Part 2, the team dove into third-party drivers and how they may be used to destroy system data.