Fresh from the recent.conf24 user conference in fabulous Las Vegas, I thought I’d share what I thought were some of the key points throughout the week. Along with admiring the traditional display of fezzes and capes throughout the week, we were excited about the great conversations with our customers, business partners, Splunkers, and, of course, the lovely Buttercup.

Security operations centers (SOCs) play a vital role in detection, containment and mitigation of today’s advanced cyber attacks. SoC teams are also responsible for proactively hunting for threats, and improving the organization’s overall security posture. Modern SOC analysts struggle with alert fatigue.

We are excited to announce a significant enhancement to our Entity Enrichment integration with CrowdStrike Falcon: the 1-Click Response action. This new feature empowers SOC analysts to isolate a host directly from Corelight Investigator, leveraging enriched context and point-in-time evidence to make informed, rapid decisions during security incidents.

In this edition of Corelight’s Hunt of the Month blog, we bring you a STRRAT malware detector. In recent months STRRAT has become one of the top malware families submitted to Any.Run’s malware sandbox: STRRAT is a Java-based remote access tool (RAT) that uses a plugin architecture to provide full remote access to an attacker, as well as credential stealing, key logging, and additional plugins.

RSA 2024 is a wrap. After multiple conversations with security leaders and partners on the show floor and during different sessions and happy hours, it’s time to look back and reflect on the biggest takeaways from the conference.

For years, the mantra for achieving visibility into potential threats has been the trio of EDR, NDR, and SIEM. These components form the foundation of a robust security posture, with EDR and NDR offering the depth and breadth needed to monitor activities across endpoints and networks.

The big idea behind Corelight has always been simple: ground truth is priceless. What really happened, both now and looking back in time. Whether it is used to detect attacks, investigate routine alerts, respond to new vulnerabilities or a full scale incident response, the constant is that ground truth makes everything in security better. We have no claim of authorship here. By contrast, we learn from the world’s most accomplished defenders through their use of Zeek® and Suricata®.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, staying ahead requires more than just detection; it demands comprehensive correlation and analysis for informed decision-making. Understanding the context surrounding an alert is important to effectively mitigate risk. That's why we're thrilled to announce the integration of CrowdStrike Falcon EDR with Investigator, part of Corelight’s Open NDR Platform.

How quickly a year passes. 2023 was Corelight’s first year participating in the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC). It was a tremendous opportunity and responsibility in which we collaborated with teams from Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Arista, Lumen, and NetWitness to keep events in Asia, Europe, and the US safe and functional for all attendees. As we speak, our team is gearing up for a repeat for Black Hat Asia 2024 in Singapore.

Malware often hides communications with its command and control (C2) server over HTTPS. The encryption in HTTPS usually conceals the compromise long enough for the malware to accomplish its goal. This makes detecting malware that uses HTTPS challenging, but once in a while, you will catch a break, as in the case here with AsyncRAT, a Windows remote access tool that has been deployed over the past year to target organizations that manage critical infrastructure in the United States.