Research by: Itay Cohen The Ocean Lotus group, also known as APT32, is a threat actor which has been known to target East Asian countries such as Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines. The... Click to Read More
Introduction Recently, Check Point researchers spotted a targeted attack against officials within government finance authorities and representatives in several embassies in Europe. The attack, which starts with a malicious attachment disguised as a... Click to Read More
Research by: Avigayil Mechtinger, Andrey Polkovnichenko and Bogdan Melnykov Summary: Checkpoint’s researchers, with the help of Craig Silverman at BuzzFeed, have uncovered a series of applications conducting fraudulent activities against Ad Agencies.... Click to Read More
The Iranian APT, MuddyWater, has been active since at least 2017. Most recently though, a new campaign, targeting Belarus, Turkey and Ukraine, has emerged that caught the attention of Check Point researchers.... Click to Read More
Research by: Slava Makkaveev Smartphones usually come with pre-installed apps, some of which are useful and some that never get used at all. What a user does not expect, however, is for... Click to Read More
Research by; Yaara Shriki and Roman Zaikin To celebrate this year’s April Fool’s Day, some of you may have noticed that Google added an interactive snake game inside its Google Maps application... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Introduction “Karta” (Russian for “map”) is a source code assisted binary matching plugin for IDA. The plugin was developed to match symbols for an open source library in... Click to Read More
Research by: Elena Root and Andrey Polkovnichenko Check Point researchers from the Mobile Threat Team have discovered a new adware campaign on the Google Play Store. This particular strain of Adware was... Click to Read More
Research by: Feixiang He, Andrey Polkovnichenko Check Point Research has recently discovered a group of Android applications massively harvesting contact information on mobile phones without the user’s consent. The data stealing logic... Click to Read More
Cuckoo Sandbox: An Introduction From software vulnerabilities to APT groups, there are many areas of cyber research that Check Point Research is involved with. Arguably, one of the most challenging areas of... Click to Read More
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