Introduction With the emerging threat of miners and the rise of cryptocurrencies that have taken the world by storm lately, Check Point Research has been keeping an eye out for mining campaigns. During... Click to Read More
By: Eyal Itkin As part of our efforts in identifying vulnerabilities in different products, from time to time we also review the Linux Kernel, mainly searching for vulnerabilities in different drivers. In this... Click to Read More
Just a few days after it was reported that malicious actors can exploit a vulnerability in MS outlook using OLE to steal a Windows user’s NTLM hashes, the Check Point research team can... Click to Read More
Check Point Research and the cyber intelligence company, CyberInt, have collaborated to discover the next generation in phishing kits, currently being advertised on the Dark Net. Unlike previous kits which are primarily composed... Click to Read More
2017 was a pivotal year that surprised many in the IT security industry. From the resurgence of destructive ransomware, IoT botnets, data breaches and mobile malware to full scale nation state attacks, it is... Click to Read More
By Eyal Shalev, Rotem Reiss and Eran Vaknin Abstract Two weeks ago, a highly critical (25/25 NIST rank) vulnerability, nicknamed Drupalgeddon 2 (SA-CORE-2018-002 / CVE-2018-7600), was disclosed by the Drupal security team. This vulnerability... Click to Read More
Festi, a once popular rootkit is back in the wild, distributed mainly by the RIG exploit kit. A long known Windows rootkit, Festi dates back to 2009 where at that time it served... Click to Read More
After a drastic decline in the volume of spam coming from the Necurs spambot observed by Check Point Telemetry in the past month, the infamous botnet is back once again and is spreading... Click to Read More
Just over a year ago one of the greatest minds in the cyber research world sadly passed away. Born in the small Russian village of Uspenskoye, Kris Kaspersky, originally named Nikolay Likhachev, suffered... Click to Read More
Research By: Feixiang He, Bohdan Melnykov, Elena Root Key Findings: RottenSys, a mobile adware, has infected nearly 5 million devices since 2016. Indications show the malware could have entered earlier in the supplier... Click to Read More
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