On June 20th Check Point published an IPS signature providing virtual patching for the Siemens SIPROTEC DoS vulnerability. This IPS signature can help protect against a new malware, CrashOverride, also known as... Click to Read More
Last month, Check Point researchers were able to spot the distribution of Jaff Ransomware by the Necurs Botnet. The ransomware was spread using malicious PDF files that had an embedded docm file,... Click to Read More
Check Point Threat Intelligence and research teams recently discovered a high volume Chinese threat operation which has infected over 250 million computers worldwide. The installed malware, Fireball, takes over target browsers and... Click to Read More
Background Rarely does the release of an exploit have such a large impact across the world. With the recent leak of the NSA exploit methods, we saw the effects of powerful tools... Click to Read More
Check Point researchers discovered another widespread malware campaign on Google Play, Google’s official app store. The malware, dubbed “Judy”, is an auto-clicking adware which was found on 41 apps developed by a... Click to Read More
May 23, 2017 Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle files, which are then downloaded by a victim’s... Click to Read More
May 17, 2017 Check Point’s latest Global Threat Impact Index detected a continued increase in the number of organizations being targeted with Exploit Kits, as Rig EK became the most prevalent form of... Click to Read More
Check Point researchers have been investigating the ransomware campaign in detail since it was first reported. With a new Check Point WannaCry Ransomware Infection Map, the researchers were able to track 34,300 attack... Click to Read More
Check Point Threat Intelligence and Research team has just registered a brand new kill-switch domain used by a fresh sample of the WannaCry Ransomware. In the last few hours we witnessed a stunning... Click to Read More
Let us open with a TL;DR – DO NOT pay the ransom demanded by the WannaCry ransomware! Now, let us explain why: As of this writing , the 3 bitcoin accounts associated with... Click to Read More
[Updated May 17, 2017] On May 12, 2017 the Check Point Incident Response Team started tracking a wide spread outbreak of the WannaCryp ransomware. We have reports that multiple global organizations are experiencing... Click to Read More
May 11, 2017 Necurs, one of the largest botnets, went offline during the holiday period of 2016 and through the beginning of 2017. However it returned only to shortly peak late in April,... Click to Read More
May 10, 2017 Check Point researchers have conducted a thorough investigation of the DiamondFox malware-as-a-service in collaboration with Terbium Labs, a Dark Web Data Intelligence company. The report includes a review of the... Click to Read More
May 4, 2017 Research by: Ofer Caspi Our ongoing investigation of the OSX/DOK campaign has led us to detect several new variants of this malware. These new variants have the same functionality as... Click to Read More
April 27, 2017 Research by: Ofer Caspi People often assume that if you’re running OSX, you’re relatively safe from malware. But this is becoming less and less true, as evidenced by a new... Click to Read More
