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Finding CVE-2022-22954 with Zeek

CISA released a warning to federal agencies on May 18 that APT actors are actively exploiting recent vulnerabilities found in VMware, including CVE-2022-22954. Your first thought may have been to want new signatures, indicators, and/or behavioral techniques to detect attempted and successful exploits. If you’re a Zeek user or Corelight customer, you’ll find that sometimes you’re already getting what you need.

What makes evidence uniquely valuable?

American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” All experienced security practitioners learn to master this mental trick. On the one hand, they believe efforts to prevent and detect breaches will be effective. On the other hand, they diligently prepare for the day when their efforts will fail.

Another day, another DCE/RPC RCE

CVE-2022-26809 was patched in Microsoft’s previous Patch Tuesday (April 12) and it’s a doozy: remote code execution on affected versions of DCE/RPC hosts. The vulnerability attracted a lot of attention in the security community, both because of its severity but also because it appears to be really hard to trigger.

Elastic and Tines partner to detect security threats and reduce mean time to respond

Today, we’re happy to announce that Elastic and Tines are partnering to help our joint users detect security threats and reduce mean time to respond. Many of the world’s best security teams rely on the power of Elastic’s high-speed, cloud-scale detection, prevention, and response capabilities to investigate and contain potential security threats within their environments.

CrowdStrike Falcon Pro for Mac Achieves Highest Score in AV-TEST MacOS Evaluation for Business Users (March 2022)

CrowdStrike is the only vendor to achieve the highest possible score of 18 points in protection, performance and usability out of all four tested vendors during the AV-TEST MacOS evaluation for business users in March 2022.

Monitoring AWS networks at scale

Corelight is pleased to announce our integration with AWS’s Traffic Mirroring to Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) Endpoint as a Target. This integration simplifies the monitoring of network traffic and generating Corelight data in massively scaled-out public cloud environments. When it comes to monitoring network traffic today, we see two primary deployment patterns, each with their own pain points.

Spotting Log4j traffic in Kubernetes environments

Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of posts we have planned over the next several weeks where we explore topics such as network monitoring in Kubernetes, using sidecars to sniff and tunnel traffic, show a real-world example of detecting malicious traffic between containers, and more! Please subscribe to the blog, or come back for more each week.

Datadog on Detecting Threats using Network Traffic Flows

At Datadog’s scale, with over 18,000 customers sending trillions of data points per day, analyzing the volume of data coming in can be challenging. One of the largest log sources internally at Datadog are networking logs. Being able to analyze and make sense of them is critical to keep Datadog secure. To help with the task, we have built a flow analysis pipeline that alerts against network level Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) like IP address, port combinations, and data exchanged.