If there’s one thing I love more than delivering great products, it’s delivering great food. The holidays are my time to channel my inner celebrity chef: I’ll burn a few cookies, over-spice a roast, and then miraculously pull it all together for a meal that leaves everyone asking for seconds (or at least not asking for the takeout menu).

Malicious files continue to be a significant threat to organizations; SonicWall reported more than six billion malware attacks in 2023. To help organizations prepare for and stay ahead of these threats, we’re introducing an integration with YARA that offers a deeper level of inspection for files across enterprise networks while helping security teams consolidate their toolset in the process.

The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report found that system intrusion is the leading attack pattern for the third consecutive year, accounting for 36% of breaches. System intrusion largely consists of a threat actor using hacking techniques and malware to infiltrate the victim organization. Following a successful intrusion, the attacker continues on a multi-stage process: The longer an attacker remains undetected, the greater their opportunity to find a target and extract data.

Over the past year, several sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns have grabbed the attention of our industry and challenged defenders and vendors alike with advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). One of the most visible campaigns is Volt Typhoon, named by the Microsoft threat intelligence team in May 2023 and attributed to Chinese state-sponsored threat actors.

Welcome to Corelight Labs' latest hunt! This blog continues our tradition of analyzing trending threat groups and TTPs on Any.Run and writing detectors for them, providing the community with open-source threat intelligence, and acting as a tutorial in engineering threat detections with Zeek Script.

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are under immense pressure to ensure no attack goes unnoticed. At Corelight, we’re being approached daily to help bring in network visibility. For many though, visibility isn’t enough. SOCs are already overloaded and Tier 1 Analysts often lack network expertise. Modern network visibility has to be easy to use and designed for maximizing SOC efficiency. For that, we built Guided Triage.

In today’s threat landscape, security teams face mounting challenges in maintaining a robust security posture. Legacy tools often fall short of defending against increasingly sophisticated adversaries, especially with the complexity of modern, multi-cloud environments. Corelight’s latest integration with the SentinelOne Singularity Platform brings a fresh approach to overcoming these challenges, unifying network and endpoint visibility while simplifying and accelerating threat investigations.

Corelight has strengthened the Suricata integration within its Open NDR Platform, empowering customers with a custom ruleset, the Corelight Feed, designed to swiftly detect and help respond to emerging threats. With a new monthly update cycle, Corelight ensures that organizations stay ahead of the latest vulnerabilities and enhance their network security posture effortlessly.

In the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC), the conference’s leadership team must assemble best-in-class technologies that complement each other to build and harden an enterprise-grade network in just a few days. Then, the NOC must continuously monitor and adapt the network throughout the course of the conference before dismantling it after the conference concludes.

At Corelight, we’re thrilled when a respected cybersecurity leader like Mandiant introduces a new offering based on our solution. This week, Mandiant Managed Defense unveiled support for Corelight Open NDR, a move that strengthens our existing relationship and integration across the Google Cloud Security portfolio.