Cryptomining Detection Using Falco

Cryptominers are programs that utilize computer resources to mine cryptocurrency. XMRig is an example of an open source cryptomining software designed for the sole purpose of mining cryptocurrencies, like Monero or Bitcoin. Cryptominers …

Getting started with modern BPF probe in Falco

The new BPF probe has landed among us 👽 and it brings to the table new shiny features. The BPF world grows continuously and every new kernel release introduces some unbelievable novelties! To take advantage of these we have created a …

Falco on AWS Cloud

It's Amazon Web Services' largest user conference this week, re:Invent, which is a good time to highlight the ways you can use Falco in the AWS Cloud for runtime security. In this article we'll review what's new, and take a look at …

Falco 0.33.1

Today we announce the release of Falco 0.33.1 🦅! Novelties 🆕 and Fixes 🐛 Here's a tiny patch release! It only fixes two bugs reported by the community: CrashLoopBackOff in some cases when the gVisor integration is enabled on Kubernetes …

Restructuring the Kubernetes Threat Matrix and Evaluating Attack Detection by Falco

I’m Hiroki Akamatsu (@hi120ki), an intern on Mercari’s Security Engineering Team. During my internship, I worked on the re-evaluation of Falco, runtime security monitoring tools for Kubernetes. This article presents the following findings …

Falco applies for graduation

Dear Falco community, The Falco project is excited to announce that on Nov 4, 2022, the project maintainers submitted the PR to be considered for graduation. This milestone is important because it demonstrates the health and maturity of the …

Falco at the KubeCon NA 2022

It was KubeCon recently. I doubt anyone reading this didn't know about it. And if you attended, you're probably still receiving e-mails about the event. KubeCon is where everyone wants to be. And Falco was there too. It did indeed have a …

Using Falco to Protect GitHub

If you are reading this, your source code is likely your most important asset: not only it is at the base of the applications that power your business, but if you operate in the cloud, it’s also likely how you define and control your …

Falco 0.33.0 a.k.a. "the pumpkin release 🎃"

Dear community, today we are happy to announce the release of Falco 0.33.0 🎉! A big thank you to the community for helping get the latest release over the finish line. The Falco community rallied behind this release and we wanted to share …