Collaboration between Greg Foss, Kjell Hedstrom, Dan Schatz-Miller, Michael Swisher, and Craig Cogdill LogRhythm NetMon is a powerful forensics tool that allows organizations to capture, analyze, and alert on network data. Traditionally, NetMon is deployed on a blade server within…
Read MoreOctober 6, 2016
Collaboration between, Greg Foss, Nathaniel “Q” Quist, and Michael “Swish” Swisher For the LogRhythm Challenge at Black Hat USA this year, we wanted to give participants the opportunity to use several different analytic skills in their attempt to beat the…
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2016
The Threat of Data Exfiltration with Packet Capture Software With the sheer volume of network traffic and the variety of applications that travel across a typical network these days, it is not surprising how easy it is to gather high-value…
Read MoreJuly 28, 2016
The Difficulty in Detecting Beaconing Malware When it comes to threat detection, you’re taking great measures to protect your organization. Yet threats, such as malware, keep getting in despite the network monitoring tools and enterprise threat detection solutions you have…
Read MoreJuly 26, 2016
Notice: LogRhythm always recommends using a sandbox or other “safe” method when testing or investigating known malicious sites. Phishing for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Everyone who works in security deals with phishing emails to some extent—some more than others. In…
Read MoreJuly 21, 2016
Over the past three years, ransomware has jumped into the spotlight of the cyberthreat landscape. Until recently, most ransomware attacks were simply opportunistic and mostly affected individual users’ or small businesses’ computers. The ransom demands have commonly been the equivalent…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2016
The Problem Security analysts can’t always dedicate their time to monitoring the security operations center (SOC), nor do they always check the alerts that they receive via email, due to various reasons. Also, some alerts are simply more important than…
Read MoreApril 21, 2016
In the last few weeks, our LogRhythm Labs team has been talking about how to defend against ransomware and phishing attacks. These topics seem to be at the forefront of the concerns of security professionals. Ransomware infections are often instigated…
Read MoreApril 4, 2016
This blog is co-authored by LogRhythm Labs Incident Response Engineer Nathaniel “Q” Quist and Threat Intelligence Engineer Matt Willems. Ransomware is currently one of the most widespread and highest-publicized threats on the Internet. Over the last few years, we’ve seen…
Read MoreMarch 28, 2016
In the world of cybersecurity, cyberthreat intelligence (CTI) burst on to the scene in a big way in 2015. Everyone wants useful data and analytical tools for next-gen cybersecurity in order to detect and respond to threats faster. The industry…
Read MoreMarch 8, 2016
