- Advanced alerts engine with security features, including the detection of attackers and victims
- Integration of 30+ nDPI security risks
- Generation of the
scoreindicator of compromise for hosts, interfaces and other network elements
- Ability to collect flows from hundredths of routers by means of observation points
- Anomaly detection based on Double Exponential Smoothing (DES) to uncover possibly suspicious behaviors in the traffic and in the score
- Encrypted Traffic Analysis (ETA) with special emphasis on the TLS to uncover self-signed, expired, invalid certificates and other issues
- Ability to configure alert exclusions for individual hosts to mitigate false positives
- FreeBSD / OPNsense / pfSense packages
- Ability to see the TX/RX traffic breakdown both for physical interfaces and when receiving traffic from nProbe
- Add support for ECS when exporting to Syslog
- Improved TCP analysis, including analysis of TCP flows with zero window and low goodput
- Ability to send alerts to Slack
- Implementation of a token-based REST API access
- Reworked the execution of hosts and flows checks (formerly user scripts), yielding a reduced CPU load of about 50%
- Improved 100Kfps+ NetFlow/sFlow collection performance
- Drilldown of nIndex historical flows much more flexible
- Migration to Bootstrap 5
- Check malicious JA3 signatures against all TLS-based protocols
- Reworked Doh/DoT handling
- Fixes SSRF and stored-XSS injected with malicious SSDP responses
- Fixes several leaks in NetworkInterface
- To ensure optimal performance and scalability and to prevent uneven resource utilization, the maximum number of interfaces handled by a single ntopng instance has been reduced to
- 16 (Enterprise M)
- 32 (Enterprise L)
- 8 (all other versions)
- REST API v1/ is deprecated and will be dropped in the next stable release in favor of REST API v2/
- The old alerts dashboard has been removed and replaced by an advanced alerts drilldown page with integrated charts
- Flexible Alert Handling
- Added recipients and endpoints to send alerts to different recipients on different channels, including email, Discord, Slack and Elasticsearch
- Initial SCADA protocol support
- Many internal components of ntopng have been rewritten in order to improve the overall ntopng performance, reduce system load, and capable of processing more data while reducing memory usage with respect to 4.0.
- Cybersecurity extensions have been greatly enhanced by leveraging on the latest nDPI enhancements that enabled the creation of several user scripts able to supervise many security aspects of modern systems.
- Behavioral traffic analysis and lateral traffic movement detection for finding cybersecurity threats in traffic noise.
- Initial Scada support with native IEC 60870-5-104 support. We acknowledge switch.ch for having supported this development.
- Consolidation of Suricata and external alerts integration to further open ntopng to the integration of commercial security devices.
- SNMP support has been enhanced in terms of speed, SNMPv3 protocol support, and variety of supported devices.
- New REST API that enabled the integration of ntopng with third party applications such as CheckMK.
- Traffic Behavioral Analysis
- Periodic Traffic
- Lateral Movements
- TLS with self-signed certificates, issuerDN, subjectDN
- Support for Industrial IOT and Scada with modbus, DNP3 and IEC60870
- Support for attack mitigation via SNMP
- Active monitoring
- Support for ICMP v4/v6, HTTP, HTTPS and Speedtest
- Ability to generate alerts upon unreachable or slow hosts or services
- Detection of unexpected servers
- DHCP, NTP, SMTP, DNS
- Services map
- nIndex direct to maximixe flows dump performance
- MacOS package
- Implements per-category indicator of compromise
score - Flexible configuration import/export/reset
- Ability to import/export/reset all the ntopng configurations or parts of it
- Increased nIndex dump throughput by a factor 10
- Increased user scripts execution throughput
- Massive cleanup/simplifications of plugins to ease community contributions
- Improved cardinality estimation (e.g., number of contacted hosts, number of contacted ports) using Hyper-Log-Log
- Added DSCP information
- Reworked handling of dissected virtual hosts to improve speed and reduce memory
- Support for hardware bypass
- Fixed race conditions in view interfaces
- Fixed crash when restoring serialized hosts in memory
- Fixed conditions causing high CPU load
- Fixes CSRF vulnerabilities when POSTing JSON
- Fixes heap-use-after-free on HTTP dissected last_url
- Plugins engine to tap into flows, hosts and other network elements
- Migration to Bootstrap 4 and Font Awesome 5 for a renewed ntopng look-and-feel with light and dark themes
- Processes and containers monitoring thanks to the eBPF integration via libebpfflow https://github.com/ntop/libebpfflow
- Active monitoring of hosts ICMP/ICMPv6/HTTP/HTTPS Round Trip Times (RTT)
- X.509 client certificate authentication
- ERSPAN transparent ethernet bridging
- Webhook export module for exporting alarms
- Identifications of the hosts in broadcast domain
- Category Lists editor to manage ip/domain lists
- Handling of PEN fields from nProbe
- Added anomalous flows to the looking glass
- Visibility of ICMP port-unreachable flows IPv4
- TCP states filtering (est., connecting, closed and rst)
- Ability to serialize local hosts in the broadcast domain via MAC address
- Japanese, portugese/brazilian localization
- Added process memory, cpu load, InfluxDB, Redis status pages and charts
- Implement ntopng Plugins, self contained modules to extend the ntopng functionalities
- Implement ZMQ/Suricata companion interface
- SSL traffic analysis and alerts via JA3 fingerprint, unsafe ciphers detection
- SSH traffic analysis and alerts via HASSH fingerprint
- Host traffic profile generation via the (MUD) Manufacturer Usage Descriptor
- Experimental Prometheus timeseries export
- Introduce the System interface to manage system wide settings and status
- Read events from Suricata and generate alerts
- SNMP network topology visualization
- Automatic ntopng update check and upgrade
- Calculate host anomaly score and trigger alerts when it exceeds a threshold
- Add ability to extract timeseries data with a click
- Initial Marketplace droplet using Fabric
- Alerts on duplex status change on SNMP interface
- View interfaces are now optimized for big networks and use less memory
- Systemd macros are now used to start/restart the ntopng services
- Handles n2disk traffic extractions from recording processes non managed by ntopng
- Interface in/out now available also for non PF_RING interfaces (read from /proc)
- Automatic InfluxDB rollup support
- MDNS discovery improvements
- Rework of the alerts engine and api for efficient engaged alerts triggering
- Faster ZMQ communication to nProbe thanks to the implementation of a binary TLV format
- Stats update for ZMQ interfaces is now based on the idle/active flows timeout
- Timeseries export improvements via queues, detect if InfluxDB is down and stop the export
- Implemented reusable Lua engine to reduce the overhead of periodic scripts
- Improve Lua error handling
- Exclude certain categories from Elephant/Long lived flows alerts
- Ability to set up port forwarding
- Support for Ubuntu 18.04
- Fix users and other prefs deleted during nEdge data reset
- Japanese localization
- Block unsupported L3 protocols (currently only ARP and IPv4 are supported)
- DNS mapping port to avoid conflicts with system programs
- Fixed export to mysql on shutdown in case of Pcap file in community mode
- Fixed failing SYN-scan detection
- Fixed ZMQ decompression errors with large templates
- Fixed possible XSS in login.lua referer param and
runtime.lua - Update geolocation due to changes in the library usage policy
- Fixes to support browsers dark mode
- Option
--zmq-encryption-key <pub key>can be used with-I <endpoint>to encrypt data hi hierarchical mode - Fixed nIndex missing data while performing some queries and throughput calculation
- Remote assistance to temporarily grant encrypted ntopng access to remote
parties
- Works with a transparent overlay-network spawned on-demand just for the time necessary for the assistance
- Passes through firewalls and NATs
- https://www.ntop.org/ntopng/use-remote-assistance-to-connect-to-ntopng-instances/
- Custom URLs and IP addresses mappings to traffic categories
- Ability to associate websites (HTTP and HTTPS) to certain traffic categories using their names
- Ability to use IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) to associate hosts to traffic categories
- https://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/web_gui/categories.html?highlight=categories#custom-category-hosts
- Continuous traffic recording
- Interfaces with n2disk for the recording and extraction of traffic
- https://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/traffic_recording.html
- Download live pcap captures of monitored hosts and interfaces
- Delivers packets in pcap format over the web
- Works with single hosts, interfaces
- Allows BPF filters
- https://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/advanced_features/live_pcap_download.html?highlight=pcap#live-pcap-download
- User activities logging
- Records an alerts ntopng web users activities, including changes in the configurations, deletion/addition of new users, login attempts, and password changes.
- http://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/basic_concepts/alerts.html
- Extended chart metrics
- Relative-Strength Index (RSI)
- Moving and Exponentially-Moving Averages
- https://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/web_gui/historical.html
- Alerts
- Scan-detection for remote hosts
- Configurable alerts for long-lived and elephant flows
- InfluxDB export failed alerts
- Remote-to-remote host alerts
- Optional JSON alerts export to Syslog
- Improved InfluxDB support
- Handles slow and aborted queries
- Uses authentication
- Adds RADIUS and HTTP authenticators
- Options to allow users login via RADIUS and HTTP
- https://www.ntop.org/ntopng/remote-ntopng-authentication-with-radius-and-ldap/
- Lua 5.3 support
- Improved performance
- Better memory management
- Native support for 64-bit integers
- Native support for bitwise operations
- Adds the new libmaxminddb geolocation library
- Storage utilization indicators
- Global storage indicator to show the disk used by each interface
- Per-interface storage indicator to show the disk used to store timeseries and flows
- Support for Sonicwall PEN field names
- Option to disable LDAP referrals
- Requests and configures Keepalive support for ZMQ sockets
- Three-way-handshake detection
- Adds SNMP mac addresses to the search function
- Implement nEdge policies test page
- Implement device presets
- DNS
- Add more DNS servers
- Remove deprecated DNS
- Fixes missing flows dump on shutdown
- HTTP dissection fixes
- SNMP
- Fix SNMP step when high resolution timeseries are enabled
- Fixes SNMP devices permissions to prevent non-admins to delete or add devices
- Properly handles endianness over ZMQ
- Fixes early expiration of some TCP flows
- Fixes non-deterministic expiration of flows
- New pro charts
- Ability to compare data with the past (time shift)
- Trend lines based on ASAP
- Average and percentile lines overlayed on the graph and animated
- New color scheme that uses pastel colors for better visualization
- https://www.ntop.org/ntopng/ntopng-and-time-series-from-rrd-to-influxdb-new-charts-with-time-shift/
- New timeseries API with support for RRD and InfluxDB
- Abstracts and handles multiple sources transparently
- https://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/api/lua/timeseries/index.html
- Streaming pcap captures with BPF support
- Download live packet captures right from the browser
- New SNMP devices caching
- Periodically cache information of all the SNMP device configured
- Calculate and visualize interfaces throughput
- Security
- Access to the web user interface is controlled with ACLs
- Secure ntopng cookies with SameSite and HttpOnly
- HTTP cookie authentication
- Improved random session id generation
- Various SNMP improvemenets
- Caching
- Interfaces status change alerts
- Device interfaces page
- Devices and interfaces added to flows
- Fixed several library memory leaks
- Improved device and interface charts
- Interfaces throughput calculation and visualization
- Ability to delete all SNMP devices at once
- Improved active devices discovery
- OS detection via HTTP User-Agent
- Alerts
- Crypto miners alerts toggle
- Detection and alerting of anomalous terminations
- Module for sending telegram.org alerts
- Slack
- Configurable Slack channel names
- Added Slack test button
- Charts
- Active flows vs local hosts chart
- Active flows vs interface traffic chart
- Ubuntu 18.04 support
- Support for ElasticSearch 6 export
- Added support for custom categories lists
- Added ability to use the non-JIT Lua interpreter
- Improved ntopng startup and shutdown time
- Support for capturing from interface pairs with PF_RING ZC
- Support for variable PPP header lenght
- Migrated geolocation to GeoLite2 and libmaxminddb
- Configuration backup and restore
- Improved IE browser support
- Using client SSL certificate for protocol detection
- Optimized host/flows purging
- Netfilter queue fill level monitoring
- Bridging support with VLANs
- Added user members management page
- Added systemd service alias to ntopng
- Captive portal fixes
- Informative captive portal (no login)
- Improved captive portal support with WISPr XML
- Disabled global DNS forging by default
- Added netfilter stats RRDs
- Fixed bad MAC traffic increment
- Fixed slow shutdown/reboot
- Fixed invalid banned site redirection
- Fixed bad gateway status
- Fixed gateway network unreacheable when gateway is down
- Fixed SSL traffic not blocked when captive portal is active
- Fixed invalid read during local DNS lookup
- Workaround for dhclient bug stuck while a lease already exists
- SNMP
- Fixed SNMP devices deletion
- Fixed format for odd SNMP interfaces speed
- Fixed SNMP community selection
- Fixed MDNS decoding
- Fixed login redirection
- Fixed MAC manufacturers escaping
- Fixed host validation errors
- Fixed traffic throughput burst when loading a serialized host
- Allowing multiple consecutive dots in password fields
- Reworked shutdown to allow graceful periodic activities termimation
- Fixed validation error in profiles with spaces in names
- Fixed old top talkers stats deletion
- Fixed 32-bit integers pushed to Lua
- Fixed service dependency from pfring
- Fixes for enabling broken SSL certificate mismatch alerts
- Fixed allowed interfaces users access
- Fixes for crashes on Windows
- Fixed lua platform dependent execution
- Fixed subnet search in hist data explorer
- Fixed flow devices and sflow mappings with SNMP
- Fixed invalid login page encoding
- LDAP fixes (overflow, invalid LDAP fields length)
- Fixed encoding for local/LDAP UTF-8 passwords
- Added POST timeout to prevent housekeeping from blocking indefinitely
- Windows resize fixes
- Fixed invalid uPnP URL
- Fixed wrong hosts retrv by pool id, OS, network, and country
- Fixed JS errors with IE browser
- Fixed custom categories matching
- Improved alerts generation
- Send alerts via email
- SNMP alerts on port status change
- Alerts at ntopng startup/shutdown
- ARP/IP re-assignments alerts
- Beta support for InfluxDB and Prometheus
- Multi-language support
- English
- Italian
- German
- "hide-from-top" to selectively hide hosts from top stats
- Discovery with SSH scan and MDNS dissection
- HTML documentation with ReadTheDocs
- ERSPAN Type 2 detunneling
- per-AS network latency stats
- TCP KeepAlive stats
- Redis connection via Unix domain socket
- Disables CGI support in mongoose
- Hardened options parsing
- Fixes memory leaks with SNMP
- Fixes possible out-of-bounds reads with SSDP dissection
- Support for the official ntopng Grafana datasource plugin
- Plugin available at: https://grafana.com/plugins/ntop-ntopng-datasource
- Newtork devices discovery
- Discovery of smartphones, laptops, IoT devices, routers, smart TVs, etc
- Device type and operating system detection
- ARP scan, SSDP dissection, Multicast DNS (MDNS) resolution
- DHCP fingerprinting
- Adds an active flows page to the AS details
- Bridge mode
- Enforcement of global per-pool time and byte quotas
- Support of per-host traffic shapers
- Added support for banned sites detection with informative splash screen
- Implement per-host/mac/pool flow drop count
- nDPI traffic categories and RRDs
- Implements MySQL database interoperability between ntopng and nProbe
- Flows sent by nProbe over ZMQ:
- Batched, compressed ZMQ flow format to optimize data exchange
- Use of post-nat src/dst addresses and ports
- Handles multiple balanced ZMQ endpoints
- Periodic tasks performed by a thread-pool to optimize cores utilization
- Hosts and devices are walked in batches to greatly reduce Lua VM memory
- Full systemd support for Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, and Raspbian
- Extended sFlow support to include sample packet drops and counter stats in interface views
- Stacked applications and categories charts for ASes, Networks, etc
- More restrictive permissions for created files and directories
- Fix of a possible dissectHTTP reads beyond end of payload
- Layer-2 Devices
- MAC devices page
- Implemented MAC last seen tracking in redis
- Manufacturer filter and sort
- Host pools (logical groups of hosts)
- Logstash flow export extension
- Implemented data anonymization: hosts and top sites
- Implements CPU load average and memory usage
- Virtual Interfaces
- ZMQ: disaggregate based on probeIP or ingress interfaceId
- Packet: disaggregate on VLANId
- ElasticSearch and MySQL flow export statistics
- Tiny Flows
- Alerts
- Implements alerts on a per-interface per-vlan basis
- Global alert thresolds for all local hosts/interfaces/local networks
- LUA alerts generation
- Adds hosts stateful syn attacks alerts
- Visualization/Retrieval of Host Alerts
- Added the ability to generate alert when ntopng detects traffic produced by malware hosts
- Slack integration: send alerts to slack
- Alerts for anomalous flows
- Host blacklisted alerts
- Alerts delete by type, older than, by host
- SSL certificates mismatch alerts generation
- Implement SSL/TLS handshake detection
- Integrated MSDN support
- Implemented DHCP dissection for name resolution
- Traffic bridging
- Per host pool, per host pool member policies
- Per L7 protocol category policies
- Flashstart categories to block
- Time and Traffic quotas
- Support to google Safe Search DNS
- Ability to set custom DNS
- Captive portal
- Limited lifetime users
- Support for pc, kindle, android, ipad devices
- SNMP
- Periodic SNMP device monitoring and polling
- Historical SNMP timeseries
- Host-to-SNMP devices mapping
- Daily/Weekly/Monthly Traffic Report: per host, interface, network
- Added ability to define host blacklists
- DNS flow characterization with FlashStart (www.flashstart.it)
- Flow LUA scripts: on flow creation, protocol detected, expire
- Periodic MySQL flows aggregation
- Batched MySQL flows insertions
- sFlow device/interface counters
- Implementation of flow devices stats
- Allows web server binding to system ports for non-privileged users
- Improved VLAN support
- Improved IPv6 support
- Implements a script to add users from the command line
- View interfaces rework
- Reported number of Layer-2 devices in ntopng footer
- Preferences re-organization and search
- Adds RIPE integration for Autonomous Systems
- Search host by custom name
- Move to the UTF-8 encoding
- Make real-time statics refresh time configurable (footer, dashboard)
- Adds support for localization (i18n)
- Traffic bridging: improved stability
- Traffic profiles: improved stability and data persistence
- Charts
- Improved historical graphs
- Traffic report rework and optimizations
- Improves the responsiveness and interactivity of historical exploration (ajax)
- Stacked top hosts
- Add ZMQ flows/sec graph
- Profiles graphs
- Implemented ICMP detailed stats for local hosts
- ASN graphs: traffic and protocols history
- ARP requests VS replies sent and received by hosts
- Implement host TCP flags distribution
- DNS packets ratio
- FlashStart category graphs
- Added ARP protocol in interface statistics
- SNMP port graphs
- Changes and rework for SIP and RTP protocol
- Adds VoIP SIP to RTP flow search
- Improves VoIP visualization (RTP)
- Disable TLS 1.0 (vulnerable) in mongoose
- Disabled insecure cyphers in SSL (when using ntopng over SSL)
- Hardens the code to prevent SQL injections
- Enforce POST form CSRF to prevent programmer mistakes
- Strict GET and POST parameters validation to prevent XSS
- Prevent HTTP splitting attacks
- Force default admin password change
- Fundamental memory-management, stability and speed improvements
- Security fixes to prevent privileges escalation and XSS
- Improved alerts with support for
- Re-arming
- Nagios
- Network-based triggers
- Suspicious probing attempts
- Netfilter support with optional packet dropping features
- Routing visibility through RIPE
- Hosts/flows listing and grouping facilities implemented directly into the C core rather than in Lua
- Fine-grained historical data drill-down features in the Professional/Small Business version. Features include top talkers, top applications, and interactions between hosts.
- Integrations with other tools:
- LDAP authentication support
- alerts forwarding/withdrawal to Nagios
- nBox integration to request pcaps of monitored flows
- Apache Kafka flows export
- Extended and improved traffic monitoring:
- TCP sessions throughput estimations and state breakdown (e.g., established, reset, etc.)
- Goodput monitoring
- Trends detection
- Highlight of low-goodput flows and hosts
- Added hosts top-visited sites
- Built-in support for:
- GRE detunnelling
- per-VLAN historical statistics
- ICMP and ICMPv6 dissection
- Extended and improved supported OSes: Ubuntu 16, Debian 7, EdgeOS
- Optional support for hosts categorization via service
flashstart.it - New options:
--capture-directionthat allows the user to chose which direction to monitor (tx only, rx only, or both)--zmq-collector-modeto assure proper nProbe flow collection behind firewalls--online-license-checkfor to check licenses online--print-ndpi-protocolsto print nDPI Layer-7 application protocols supported
- Implementation of traffic profiles, logical flow-based aggregations -- e.g., Facebook traffic originating at host X. Real-time statistics as well as historical data are collected for each traffic profile
- Added a fine-grained network traffic breakdown that captures and stores ingress, egress, and inner traffic for each local network
- Ex-novo redesign of historical interfaces. Historical interface data have been seamlessly integrated with real-time data
- Historical flow dump and runtime drill-down of historical data with support for MySQL and ElasticSearch
- Built-in support for protocols:
- CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5415)
- BATMAN (http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/BATMANConcept)
- TZSP (TaZmen Sniffer Protocol)
- Added SIP and RTP protocols information in flow details
- Additional MAC-based host classification
- Added support for Linux TUN/TAP devices in TUN mode
- Extended and improved supported OSes: EdgeOS, Centos 6/7, Ubuntu 12.04/14.04, Debian, Windows x64, Raspbian (Raspberry)
- Extended and improved supported architectures: x86, x86-64, MIPS, ARM.
- Documentation and User Guide significantly improved
- Added a great deal of READMEs, including ElasticSearch, bridging, traffic shaping and policing, NetBeans development
- Improved stability both under normal and high network loads
- Fixed tens of minor bugs