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
Research by: Arie Olshtein These days, attackers use cheap and publicly accessible services to help them bypass Anti-Virus protections and gain a foothold in their victims’ systems. We give a behind the scenes... Click to Read More
By Matan Ben David, Incident response Analyst Imagine that you’re the owner of a startup and waiting for a million-dollar seed round of funding, only it never shows up in your bank account.... Click to Read More
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 2nd December 2019, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Check Point Research has found a nearly 223% increase... Click to Read More
Research by: Slava Makkaveev Introduction Most mobile users understandably worry about known vulnerabilities in the core operating system of their devices, which can give an attacker complete control over their mobile phones, and... Click to Read More
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Introduction We recently wrote about the massive “sextortion” spam campaign carried out by the Phorpiex botnet. However, this is only a small part of this botnet’s malicious activity. Capable... Click to Read More
Research By: Slava Makkaveev Trusted Execution Environment TrustZone is a security extension integrated by ARM into the Corex-A processor. This extension creates an isolated virtual secure world which can be used by the... Click to Read More
