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Smart PCAP and threat detection in the cloud

I am thrilled to publicly launch Corelight software version 22, which introduces a transformative new security product, Smart PCAP, and also enables threat detection in the cloud by extending Corelight’s Open NDR ...
Telegram Zeek, you’re my main notice

Telegram Zeek, you’re my main notice

Notices in Zeek Zeek’s Notice Framework enables network operators to specify how potentially interesting network findings can be reported. This decoupling of detection and reporting highlights Zeek’s flexibility: a notice-worthy event in ...

What’s next for the National Cyber Director?

By Jean Schaffer, Federal CTO, Corelight As the first National Cyber Director begins to settle into office, private industry is very hopeful that this will be one of the turning points to ...
PrintNightmare, SMB3 encryption, and your network

PrintNightmare, SMB3 encryption, and your network

By Yacin Nadji and Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researchers CVE-2021-1675, also tracked in CVE-2021-34527, is a remote code execution vulnerability that targets the Windows Print Spooler service. In a nutshell, there is ...
Corelight Sensors detect the ChaChi RAT

Corelight Sensors detect the ChaChi RAT

By Paul Dokas, Keith Jones, Anthony Kasza, Yacin Nadji, & Vern Paxson – Corelight Labs Team Recently Blackberry analyzed a new GoLang Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named “ChaChi.” This sample was interesting ...
Finding SolarWinds / SUNBURST backdoors with Zeek, Suricata, & Corelight

Detecting CVE-2021-31166 – HTTP vulnerability

By Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researcher In this blog we aim to provide a little insight into part of the lifecycle of Corelight Lab’s response to a critical HTTP vulnerability. We’ve open-sourced ...

What the Cyber EO means for federal agencies

By Jean Schaffer, Federal CTO, Corelight For those of us who have spent our careers working in cybersecurity, President Biden’s recent “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” (EO) held no surprises ...

World’s first 100G Zeek sensor

By Sarah Banks, Senior Director of Product Management, Corelight As we finished rolling out Corelight’s v21 software release, which saw the delivery of the world’s first 100G, 1U Zeek sensor, I was ...
Introducing RDP Inferences

Introducing RDP Inferences

By Anthony Kasza, Technical Director, Corelight Corelight recently released a new package, focused on RDP inferences, as part of our Encrypted Traffic Collection. This package runs on Corelight Sensors and provides network ...

Introducing the C2 Collection and RDP inferences

By Vince Stoffer, Senior Director, Product Management, Corelight We’re excited to announce that the Command and Control (C2) Collection is now available with today’s launch of version 21 of the Corelight software ...