New Era of Cyber Attacks – Know Thy Adversary
In February 2014 at the RSA Conference, my colleague George Kurtz and I presented a session titled “Hacking Exposed: Day of Destruction.”…
Executive Viewpoint
Unprecedented Announcement by FBI Implicates North Korea in Destructive Attacks
There is a curse that is purported to translate to an old Chinese Proverb - “May you live in interesting times.” These…
Malware-Free Intrusions: Adversary Tricks and CrowdStrike Treats
‘Tis the season for trick-or-treating, so I thought it might be a good time to share some of the new tricks we’re…
CrowdStrike Discovers Use of 64-bit Zero-Day Privilege Escalation Exploit (CVE-2014-4113) by Hurricane Panda
Every once in a while an adversary does something unique or interesting that really captures our attention. The majority of the remote…
Why Digital Crowbars Aren’t the Enemy
At CrowdStrike, our approach to fighting cyber crime is fundamentally different from the one cybersecurity industry has taken over the past 30…
CrowdStrike ShellShock Scanner – New Community Tool
A large number of ShellShock online vulnerability scanners have been released since the bug disclosure on September 24. These tools can be…
CrowdStrike Launches The Adversary Manifesto
Welcome to the first edition of The Adversary Manifesto, a new publication focusing on the most important cyber security issues of the…
Deep in Thought: Chinese Targeting of National Security Think Tanks
For some time now, CrowdStrike has been working with a number of national security think tanks and human rights organizations on a…
*NEW* Community Tool: CrowdStrike Heartbleed Scanner
Since last week, several researchers and security companies have released free web-based scanners for the OpenSSL Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) vulnerability independently revealed on…
*NEW* Community Tool: CrowdResponse
At the 2014 RSA Conference in San Francisco, CrowdStrike CTO Dmitri Alperovitch and I presented the security community with a demo of…