Check Point Researchers have recently discovered a crypto-mining script running through Morfix, the popular Hebrew to English online dictionary, without its users’ knowledge or permission. The mining was operated by a JavaScript,... Click to Read More
A Zero-Day vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215) in the Huawei home router HG532 has been discovered by Check Point Researchers, and hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit it have already been found in the... Click to Read More
November was another busy month as people geared up for Black Friday shopping and the pitfalls that brings to both online retailers and consumers alike. Take a look at our quick roundup of... Click to Read More
Research By: Eran Vaknin, Gal Elbaz, Alon Boxiner, Oded Vanunu Latest research from the Check Point Research Team has revealed several vulnerabilities, that puts each and every organization that does any type... Click to Read More
Research By: Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Oded Vanunu Black Friday symbolizes the start of the end of year shopping season. During this period, online shopping is expected to increase rapidly as... Click to Read More
Last week, thanks to the Check Point web sensor network, our researchers discovered a new and massive IoT Botnet, ‘IoTroop’. Due to the urgency of this discovery, we quickly published our initial... Click to Read More
What is this all about? Earlier this week a new ransomware attack dubbed ‘Bad Rabbit’ broke out and has so far affected The Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Bulgaria. Various healthcare, media, software... Click to Read More
Key Points: A massive Botnet is forming to create a cyber-storm that could take down the internet. An estimated million organizations have already been scanned with an unknown amount actually infected. The... Click to Read More
Research By: Mark Lechtik and Raman Ladutska The Brazilian cyberspace is known to be a whole ecosystem of its own and, although the banking malware that originates there has traditionally been somewhat... Click to Read More
Check Point’s latest Global Threat Index has revealed a massive increase in worldwide Locky attacks during September, with the ransomware impacting 11.5% of organizations globally over the course of the month. Locky... Click to Read More
Research By: Nadav Grossman Introduction Since the revelation of the EternalBlue exploit, allegedly developed by the NSA, and the malicious uses that followed with WannaCry, it went under thorough scrutiny by the security... Click to Read More
With mobile attacks representing nearly 20% of all cyberattacks in the Americas during the first half of 2017, users are constantly warned to be aware of security risks affecting their data and... Click to Read More
Check Point’s latest Global Threat Index has revealed that banking trojans were extensively used by cyber-criminals during August with three main variants appearing in the top 10. The Zeus, Ramnit and Trickbot... Click to Read More
Check Point’s mobile threat research team identified a new variant of an Android malware that sends fraudulent premium SMS messages and charges for fake services to users’ accounts without their knowledge. According... Click to Read More
With a growing number of cyber-attacks and the frequent news headlines on database breaches, spyware and ransomware, quality security products have become a commodity in every business organization. Consequently a lot of... Click to Read More
