Festi, a once popular rootkit is back in the wild, distributed mainly by the RIG exploit kit. A long known Windows rootkit, Festi dates back to 2009 where at that time it... Click to Read More
After a drastic decline in the volume of spam coming from the Necurs spambot observed by Check Point Telemetry in the past month, the infamous botnet is back once again and is... Click to Read More
Just over a year ago one of the greatest minds in the cyber research world sadly passed away. Born in the small Russian village of Uspenskoye, Kris Kaspersky, originally named Nikolay Likhachev,... Click to Read More
Following recent heated attention over possible flaws in AMD processor chips, Check Point Research was privately approached by the source of these controversial findings, CTS Labs, and was asked to verify their... Click to Read More
Research By: Feixiang He, Bohdan Melnykov, Elena Root Key Findings: RottenSys, a mobile adware, has infected nearly 5 million devices since 2016. Indications show the malware could have entered earlier in the... Click to Read More
Research by: Ben Herzog Key Points: In 2018 even ransomware is agile. Learn about the mindset of the GandCrab ransomware developers. Take a deep dive into the inner workings of GandCrab’s operation. Get... Click to Read More
Research By: Ofer Caspi, Benjamin Berger Chrome Remote Desktop is an extension to the Chrome browser that allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. It is... Click to Read More
The mobile world is extremely dynamic and changes rapidly, so it’s always a little hectic to follow its lead. For this reason, we try to stop every once in a while and... Click to Read More
The Check Point research team has discovered what could potentially become one of the biggest malicious mining operations ever seen. As seen in our previous report of the RubyMiner, these types of... Click to Read More
Cryptocurrency values may be tumbling but cyber criminals are still hedging their bets on its long term returns. Check Point researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign leading to the Rig Exploit... Click to Read More
Research By: Mark Lechtik Overview: DorkBot is a known malware that dates back to 2012. It is thought to be distributed via links on social media, instant messaging applications or infected removable... Click to Read More
Research By: Elena Root & Bogdan Melnykov Check Point Researchers have revealed a new and nasty malicious code on Google Play Store that hides itself inside around 60 game apps, several of... Click to Read More
In the last 24 hours, 30% of networks worldwide have experienced compromise attempts by a crypto-miner targeting web servers. During that period, the lone attacker attempted to exploit 30% of all networks... Click to Read More
Research By: Omer Gull and Netanel Ben Simon Background A few weeks ago, a vulnerability in the Office Equation 3.0 process (EQNEDT32.EXE) was discovered by Embedi. For a couple of reasons this... Click to Read More
Research By: Erez Israel, Daniel Marx, Yoav Alon, Aviv Gafni and Ben Omelchenko Last week, two publications regarding a pair of vulnerabilities named individually by their publishers as Meltdown and Spectre sent... Click to Read More
