Earlier last month Ripple20 became popular as it has listed some vulnerabilities found in a custom IP stack used by many IoT devices. Despite the hype on Ripple20, in essence the tool used to fingerprint vulnerable devices sends either malformed … Continue reading
Howto Build a 100 Gbit (Drop-Free) Continuous Packet Recorder using n2disk [Part 3]
In the first post of this series (part 1) we described how to build a 2×10 Gbit continuous packet recorder using n2disk and PF_RING, in the second post (part 2) we described what hardware is required to scale from 10 Gbit to … Continue reading
Howto Identify and Block Telegram-based Botnets
Botnets are a popular way to run malware on a network using the command and control paradigm. Popular protocols used by botnets include IRC and HTTP. Most IDSs can detect bots as long as they can inspect the network traffic. … Continue reading
ntop Tools Taxonomy
As sometime people is confused about the various options ntopng tools offer, this post is an attempt to clarify them in a single page. Enjoy!
Why Traffic Behaviour Analysis is Good (was Encrypting TLS 1.3 Traffic)
In the latest nDPI meetup, we have discussed future directions, including extending the current encrypted traffic analysis features. Currently nDPI supports both fingerprint and behaviour encrypted traffic analysis techniques to provide TLS traffic visibility. At ntop we have never liked … Continue reading
How Lockdown Changed Corporate Internet Connectivity
Global lockdown has forced many people to work from remote: empty offices, all remote working until the emergency is over. In essence during the lockdown remote workers used very few corporate services via VPN, with relatively light traffic (e.g. … Continue reading
Webinar: Network Monitoring in Post-Lockdown Days
This is to invite our community to a new webinar that will explain how we have enhanced ntopng to take into account network monitoring challenges due to global lockdown. In particular we will show how ntopng can be integrated with … Continue reading
You’re invited to the future of nDPI: Python, Cybersecurity and Behaviour. May 15th, 4PM CET
Hi all, this is to invite you to an open discussion about nDPI, its future. In particular Python bindings, cybersecurity extensions and behaviour analysis. We will meet at 4PM CET (10AM EST) live on the Internet. For those who have … Continue reading
Using ntop tools (including PF_RING ZC) on Docker
Software containers are an elegant way to deploy software applications. If you are wondering if ntop supports software containers the answer is yes. Whenever new stable versions of packages are built, containers hosted on hub.docker.com are automatically updated. Instead if … Continue reading
Trickbot Malware Analysis Using nDPI and ntopng
Trickbot is a malware distributed via malspam, spam emails containing links for downloading malicious files that infect computers. A pcap file of a trickbot infection named 2019-09-25-Trickbot-gtag-ono19-infection-traffic.pcap can be downloaded at this URL. You can analyse the file using nDPI … Continue reading