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.

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.

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.