Executive Summary In this article, Check Point Research shares findings on a group / activity cluster with ties to Tropic Trooper: The infection chain includes a previously undescribed loader (dubbed “Nimbda”) written in... Click to Read More
Introduction Check Point Research uncovers a recent Iranian-based spear-phishing operation aimed against former Israeli officials, high-ranking military personnel, research fellows in research institutions, think tanks, and against Israeli citizens. The attacks use a... Click to Read More
Research by: Slava Makkaveev Introduction Do you remember push-button telephones? Many of them were based on chips from Spreadtrum Communications Inc., a Chinese chip manufacturer founded in 2001. In 2011, over half of all... Click to Read More
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev & Raman Ladutska Introduction In July 2021, CPR released a series of three publications covering different aspects of how the Formbook and XLoader malware families function. We described how... Click to Read More
Introduction In the past two months, we observed multiple APT groups attempting to leverage the Russia and Ukraine war as a lure for espionage operations. It comes as no surprise that Russian entities... Click to Read More
Research by: Slava Makkaveev, Netanel Ben Simon Introduction The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is an audio coding format developed by Apple Inc. in 2004 for lossless data compression of digital music. After... Click to Read More
Research By: Alexey Bukhteyev Highlights Check Point Research (CPR) discovered a vulnerability in the web version of Ever Surf wallet, part of the Everscale blockchain ecosystem By exploiting the vulnerability, an attacker could... Click to Read More
Introduction Geopolitical tensions often make headlines and present a golden opportunity for threat actors to exploit the situation, especially those targeting high-profile victims. In the past month while the Russian invasion of Ukraine... Click to Read More
Research by : Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin, Oded Vanunu Highlights: ApeCoin, one of the largest NTF’s today announced free token claim on launch Hackers found a way to claim free tokens on ApeCoin... Click to Read More
Introduction You’ve probably heard of the Conti ransomware group. After their 2020 emergence, they’ve accumulated at least 700 victims, where by “victims” we mean ‘big fish’ corporations with millions of dollars in revenue;... Click to Read More
Popular games such as “Temple Run” or “Subway Surfer” were found to be malicious Attackers can use the installed malware as a backdoor in order to gain full control on the victim’s machine... Click to Read More
In the past few months, a new wave of cyberattacks has been flooding Iran. These attacks are far from minor website defacements – the recent wave is hitting national infrastructure and causing major... Click to Read More
Research By: Alexey Bukhteyev Malware uses sandbox evasion techniques to avoid exposing its malicious behavior inside a sandbox and thus prevent detection. Figure 1 – Sandbox evasion techniques. Common evasion techniques include the... Click to Read More
Introduction With the emergence of the Log4j security vulnerability, we’ve already seen multiple threat actors, mostly financially motivated, immediately add it to their exploitation arsenal. It comes as no surprise that some nation-sponsored... Click to Read More
Earlier this year, Check Point Research published the story of “Jian” — an exploit used by Chinese threat actor APT31 which was “heavily inspired by” an almost-identical exploit used by the Equation Group,... Click to Read More
