I’m in Washington, waiting for my flight back to Belgium. I just attended the 2019 edition of the OSSEC Conference, well more precisely, close to Washington in Herndon, VA. This was my first one and I’ve been honoured to be invited to speak at the event. OSSEC is a very
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Tracking Unexpected DNS Changes”: DNS is a key element of the Internet and, regularly, we read new bad stories. One of the last one was the Department of Homeland Security warning about recent DNS hijacking attacks. Indeed, when you want to visit the website ‘isc.sans.org’, you
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Using OSSEC Active-Response as a DFIR Framework”: In most of our networks, endpoints are often the weakest link because there are more difficult to control (example: laptops are travelling, used at home, etc).They can also be located in different locations even countries for
My training submission has been accepted at the BruCON Spring Training session in April 2019. This training is intended for Blue Team members and system/security engineers who would like to take advantage of the OSSEC integration capabilities with other tools and increase the visibility of their infrastructure behaviour. OSSEC is sometimes described as
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Divided Payload in Multiple Pasties”: In politic, there is a strategy which says “divide and conquerâ€. It’s also true for some pieces of malware that spread their malicious code amongst multiple sources. One of our readers shared a sample of Powershell code found
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Powershell using a Decoy Picture“: I found another interesting piece of malicious Powershell while hunting. The file size is 1.3MB and most of the file is a PE file Base64 encoded. You can immediately detect it by checking the first characters of
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Hunting for Suspicious Processes with OSSEC“: Here is a quick example of how OSSEC can be helpful to perform threat hunting. OSSEC is a free security monitoring tool/log management platform which has many features related to detecting malicious activity on a live system like the
I’m proud to have been selected to give a training at DeepSec (Vienna, Austria) in November: “Hunting with OSSEC“. This training is intended for Blue Team members and system/security engineers who would like to take advantage of the OSSEC integration capabilities with other tools and increase the visibility of their infrastructure behaviour.
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Truncating Payloads and Anonymizing PCAP files“: Sometimes, you may need to provide PCAP files to third-party organizations like a vendor support team to investigate a problem with your network. I was looking for a small tool to anonymize network traffic but also to
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Exploiting the Power of Curl“: Didier explained in a recent diary that it is possible to analyze malicious documents with standard Linux tools. I’m using Linux for more than 20 years and, regularly, I find new commands or new switches that help me
