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
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Check Point Research (CPR) spotted the resurgence of Phorpiex, an old threat known for its sextortion spam campaigns, crypto-jacking, cryptocurrency clipping and ransomware spread The new variant “Twizt” enables... Click to Read More
What is Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)? A Remote Code Execution vulnerability in log4j2, a popular logging framework used in Java applications. What does this mean in practice? It means you can compromise a machine by... Click to Read More
Research by: Raman Ladutska, Aliaksandr Trafimchuk, David Driker, Yali Magiel Overview Trickbot and Emotet are considered some of the largest botnets in history. They both share a similar story: they were taken down... Click to Read More
Research by: Shmuel Cohen Introduction In the last few months, multiple Iranian media and social networks have published warnings about ongoing SMS phishing campaigns impersonating Iranian government services. The story is as old... Click to Read More
