The breadth and depth of data available to CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ threat hunters has the potential to be a double-edged sword. On one side, the wealth of data gives hunters the comprehensive visibility needed to uncover stealthy and novel interactive intrusion activity that can remain undetected by autonomous technology alone. On the other side, it […]

This blog was originally published Nov. 12, 2020 on humio.com. Humio is a CrowdStrike Company. Running distributed stateful systems on Kubernetes can be a challenge — but it doesn’t have to be. The Humio Operator facilitates the configuration and deployment, and eases the management of your Humio clusters running on Kubernetes. In our previous blog […]

Dan Herghelegiu won’t be the first engineer drawn to a job at CrowdStrike because of our top-notch tech, incredible scale and open culture — and at the rate our team is growing, he certainly won’t be the last.  In this latest installment in our 5 Questions series, we sit down with Dan to talk about […]

Throughout 2021, the CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ team has observed the volume of cryptojacking intrusions more than quadruple compared to 2020. ECrime adversaries are using cryptojacking as a means of monetizing an intrusion, in addition to ransom demands and data extortion — and they’re going to greater lengths to employ stealthy techniques to optimize the performance […]

This is Part 4 in our four-part blog series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. For the longest time security has been about developing defenses around innovation that has already happened, forcing security to continuously play catch up — a false strategy that has been exploited by adversaries for years. […]

Popular NPM package with over 7 million weekly downloads was compromised and used to distribute cryptocurrency miners and password stealers NPM library is used by developers to publish and download node.js projects Attackers hijacked the package developer’s account for hours, with an unknown number of users affected  Measures are taken to ensure systems residing in […]

Organizations continue to be targeted by sophisticated threats that lead to potential breaches. Customers need the proper people, process, intelligence and technology to be able to reduce risk and stop these threats. Recently, we announced an expansion to the technical collaborations we have with AWS to give customers enhanced protection against threats across cloud, workloads, […]

This blog was originally published Nov. 10, 2020 on humio.com. Humio is a CrowdStrike Company. As Kubernetes has grown in popularity so have the variety and scale of the applications enterprises run on the container-orchestration system. One of the most exciting developments in the cloud-native landscape has been the Operator pattern. In this first in […]

CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ recently released its annual threat hunting report, Nowhere to Hide, detailing the interactive intrusion activity observed by hunters over the course of the past year. Intrusions against the telecommunications industry emerged as a common trend, and were examined in-depth through the report. The case study below shares insights into activity at a telecommunication […]

CrowdStrike research finds that 75% of the WebAssembly modules are malicious WebAssembly is an open standard that allows browsers to execute compiled programs Cryptocurrency miners boost efficiency by abusing WebAssembly to achieve near-native execution performance eCriminals turn to WebAssembly to hide web-based malware CrowdStrike researchers analyzed 12,291 unique WebAssembly (Wasm) samples from May 2018 to […]