Research By: Yaroslav Harakhavik and Nikita Fokin Following our recent analysis of the Kronos banking Trojan, we discovered that Kronos has also now been enhanced to hide its communication with C&C server using Tor.... Click to Read More
Check Point Research has uncovered a large Malvertising campaign that starts with thousands of compromised WordPress websites, involves multiple parties in the online advertising chain and ends with distributing malicious content, via multiple... Click to Read More
The Emotet Trojan downloader originally debuted in 2014 as a banking Trojan that took an unusual approach to stealing banking credentials; Instead of hooking per-browser functions in the victim’s web browser process, Emotet... Click to Read More
When the whistle of the first match of the 2018 World Cup blew, it didn’t just signal the start of an exciting tournament for football fans worldwide, but also gave the green light... Click to Read More
When it comes to the global cyber threat landscape, threats are ever evolving, keeping organizations, as well as the security research community, constantly challenged. In our Cyber Attack Trends: 2018 Mid-Year Report we... Click to Read More
By Mark Lechtik Introduction In this post we will be analyzing the UPAS Kit and the Kronos banking Trojan, two malwares that have come under the spotlight recently due to the back story... Click to Read More
Required Background: Basic experience with virtual machines, i.e. creating a VM and installing an OS. The most technically involved it gets is setting up a working SSH server on one of the VMs... Click to Read More
Research by: Slava Makkaveev Background A few months ago, Check Point Research discovered two vulnerabilities that reside in the default keyboard on all mainstream LG smartphone models (termed by LG as ‘LGEIME’). These... Click to Read More
Introduction The Dark Web is a hive of illicit activity. From illegal guns and drug dealing to the Ransomware-as-a-Service programs buyers and sellers can use this medium to trade and exchange both knowledge... Click to Read More
By: Mark Lechtik and Michael Kajiloti Revealed: In an exclusive piece of research, Check Point Researchers have carried out a revealing investigation into North Korea’s home-grown anti-virus software, SiliVaccine. One of several interesting... Click to Read More
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