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
Research by Ronen Shustin Cloud Attack Part II In the previous part we talked about the Azure Stack architecture and mentioned that it can be extended with features that are not part of... Click to Read More
Overview Predator the Thief is a sophisticated malicious stealer which has been on the scene for around one and a half years. What started as coding experiments in malware development later evolved into... Click to Read More
Alexander Chailytko Cyber Security, Research & Innovation Manager In this publication we describe a technique which would have allowed a threat actor to potentially identify and join active meetings. All the details discussed... Click to Read More
The Phorpiex botnet currently consists of more than 1,000,000 infected Windows computers. In our previous publications, we wrote about the botnet architecture, its command and control infrastructure, and monetization methods: Phorpiex Breakdown In... Click to Read More
Crypto Miners, Targeted ransomware and cloud attacks dominate the threat landscape Each year, Check Point Research (CPR) reviews previous year cyber incidents to gather key insights about the global cyber threat landscape.... Click to Read More
Researchers: Alon Boxiner, Eran Vaknin, Alexey Volodin, Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin December 2019 Available in over 150 markets, used in 75 languages globally, and with over 1 billion users, TikTok has definitely... Click to Read More
Introduction Recently, Check Point engines detected a new phishing campaign impersonating the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). The attack starts by sending legitimate-looking e-mails containing a PDF attachment to multiple organizations and victims... Click to Read More
By Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Yaara Shriki Background: Some of the latest news regarding WhatsApp vulnerabilities are relating to a manipulation of the WhatsApp protocol using a tool built by Check Point... Click to Read More
