Introduction Launching an attack does not always require high technical aptitude on the part of a threat actor, especially when there are ready-made tools available for every stage of the infection chain. Delivery... Click to Read More
We’ve heard this question a lot. We’re even young enough to remember having asked it. The standard answer is often an embarrassed mumble that there are no golden rules, and that you should... Click to Read More
Research by Israel Wernik, Danil Golubenko , Aviran Hazum Although Google has taken steps to secure its Play store and stop malicious activity, hackers are still finding ways to infiltrate the app store and access users’... Click to Read More
Cybercrime is usually a one-way street. Shady types send their malicious documents and Trojans downstream to us innocent folk. Worst-case scenario, we get infected. Best-case scenario, we smirk, hit “delete” and move on... Click to Read More
Introduction Check Point Research discovered a new campaign against the Mongolian public sector, which takes advantage of the current Coronavirus scare, in order to deliver a previously unknown malware implant to the target.... Click to Read More
Following our recent Phorpiex publications, we finish with technical descriptions of the modules we encountered in this campaign. Below we describe the remaining ones: XMRig Silent Loader. NetBIOS Worm Module. Auxiliary modules (includes... Click to Read More
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of March 2nd 2020, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES An unprotected ElasticSearch database belonging to the sport retailer... Click to Read More
As malicious threats evolve, the necessity in automated solutions to analyze such threats emerges. It’s a very common case when malware samples are executed in some kind of virtualized environment. These environments differ... Click to Read More
Research by: Yohann Sillam and Daniel Alima Introduction and Context Check Point researchers are following an evolving, ongoing malspam campaign that is targeting more than 80 Turkish companies. The malware uses different evasive... Click to Read More
Researched by: Yaroslav Harakhavik Selling malware as a service (MaaS) is a reliable way for criminals to make money. Recently, various Remote Access Tools (RAT) have become increasingly popular. Though these RATs... Click to Read More
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