For this how-to guide, we’ll walk through how to use the CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale Log Collector to collect and send log events to your CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale repository. Although the log shipper supports several types of log sources (see the list here), we’ll cover the use case of collecting log events from journald.

CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale, formerly known as Humio, provides a full range of dashboarding and live query capabilities out of the box. Sometimes, however, you’ll work in an environment where there are other solutions alongside LogScale. For example, let’s say your operations team takes an observability approach that includes metrics scraped by Prometheus, tracing with Jaeger, and dashboard visualizations with Grafana.

The theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 is “See Yourself in Cyber.” As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, CrowdStrike celebrates the many ways human expertise and technology come together to create a stronger defense against adversaries.

OpenSSL.org has announced that an updated version of its OpenSSL software package (version 3.0.7) will be released on November 1, 2022. This update contains a fix for a yet-to-be-disclosed security issue with a severity rating of “critical” that affects OpenSSL versions above 3.0.0 and below the patched version of 3.0.7, as well as applications with an affected OpenSSL library embedded.

Security is a data problem. One of the most touted benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is the speed at which they can analyze potentially millions of events and derive patterns out of terabytes of files. Computational technology has progressed to the point where computers can process data millions of times faster than a human could.

CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR™ and CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale™ were hot topics at Fal.Con 2022. We weren’t surprised — both are transformational technologies. They’re also complementary, which spurred some questions about how they work together to solve the toughest IT and security challenges. Here, we dig into the details and clear up some common questions about what these tools do, when they should be used and the value they provide.

Cyber threats to elections in the U.S. and abroad remain at an elevated level and continue to evolve. It’s appropriate and encouraging to see continued growth and investment in cybersecurity efforts within elections communities. As a longstanding leader in defending elections globally, CrowdStrike understands the importance of these efforts and we want to do our part to help raise and sustain awareness.

CrowdStrike has identified a new cryptojacking campaign targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure. Called “Kiss-a-dog,” the campaign targets Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure using an obscure domain from the payload, container escape attempt and anonymized “dog” mining pools.

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform delivered 100% ransomware detection and protection with zero false positives in winning the AAA Enterprise Advanced Security (Ransomware) Award in the first-ever SE Labs EDR ransomware evaluation.

In Part 1, we explained what Intel SGX enclaves are and how they benefit ransomware authors. In Part 2, we explore a hypothetical step-by-step implementation and outline the limitations of this method. Watch this live attack demo to see how the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform and the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete™ managed detection and response team protect against ransomware.

CrowdStrike is now a Research Partner with the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense, joining a select list of cybersecurity companies and research foundations to take a hands-on approach to transforming state-of-the-art, threat-informed defense against sophisticated adversaries into a state of practice for organizations. Building on its previous role as Research Sponsor, CrowdStrike is reaffirming its commitment to fostering an open and collaborative security ecosystem.

Organizations today face an onslaught of attacks across devices, identity and cloud workloads. The more security telemetry an organization has to work with, the better threat hunters can contextualize events to find and remediate potential threats. Google recently announced Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, a collection of plug-and-play integrations with industry-leading security solution providers.

As organizations continue to shift to multi-cloud environments and increasingly use cloud services for application development, new challenges emerge that require dramatic changes in the delivery and practice of cybersecurity.

In Part 3, CrowdStrike’s Endpoint Protection Content Research Team covered the finer points of Input/Output Control (IOCTL) usage by various wipers. The fourth and final part of the wiper series covers some of the rarely used “helper” techniques implemented by wipers, which achieve secondary goals or facilitate a smaller portion of the wiping process.

At CrowdStrike, our mission is to stop breaches. To achieve this, we’re always on the lookout to defend customers against active attacks and preemptively protect them against emerging threats. In July 2021, researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, published a white paper, “RansomClave: Ransomware Key Management using SGX,” that presents a novel ransomware based on an Intel feature called Software Guard Extension (SGX).

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.

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.

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.