Research by: Aviran Hazum, Feixiang He, Inbal Marom, Bogdan Melnykov, Andrey Polkovnichenko Check Point Researchers recently discovered a new variant of mobile malware that quietly infected around 25 million devices, while... Click to Read More
A View into New Nasty Tricks and Actor Activity Research By: Israel Gubi Background Smokeloader is a popular bot and a veteran in its field – being sold on underground cybercriminal markets... Click to Read More
Check Point Research recently came across a large-scale campaign that for years was using Facebook pages to spread malware across mobile and desktop environments, with one target country in mind: Libya. It... Click to Read More
In the last few weeks, Check Point Research has combined forces with CyberInt to identify a chain of vulnerabilities that, once exploited, could have led to the takeover of millions of player... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Introduction At the beginning of 2019, we released Karta, a plugin for the IDA disassembler that identifies open sources in binaries. During our work on the plugin, we stumbled... Click to Read More
Research by: Yaroslav Harakhavik and Aliaksandr Chailytko It’s been over a year since DanaBot was first discovered, and its developers are still working to improve it and find new opportunities to collaborate... Click to Read More
Omri Herscovici During the past 3 years, Check Point Research has invested significant resources into vulnerability research. For every vulnerability we discover, we first notify the vendor and immediately develop new... Click to Read More
Research by: Eran Vaknin and Alon Boxiner The goal of Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is to provide a programming platform for creating and hosting applications that manage Microsoft Windows-based environment, and to... Click to Read More
Research by: Ronen Shustin Introduction About a year ago Check Point Research discovered critical vulnerabilities in a Ukrainian TV streaming platform that, if exploited, could leave service providers exposed to a serious... Click to Read More
Research by: Ben Herzog It’s possible to write any program in any programming language; that’s what Turing completeness means. Therefore, it’s possible write malware in any language, too. But in both cases,... Click to Read More
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