Introduction Back in March 2019, Amnesty International published a report that uncovered a targeted attack against journalists and human rights activists in Egypt. The victims even received an e-mail from Google warning... Click to Read More
Research by Itay Cohen from Check Point Research and Omri Ben Bassat from Intezer This research is a joint effort conducted by Check Point and Intezer. prologue пролог If the names Turla, Sofacy,... Click to Read More
Research By: Mark Lechtik & Nadav Grossman Introduction Earlier this year, our colleagues at Symantec uncovered an interesting story about the use of Equation group exploitation tools by an alleged Chinese group... Click to Read More
Research By: Artyom Skrobov, Slava Makkaveev Introduction Check Point Researchers have identified a susceptibility to advanced phishing attacks in certain modern Android-based phones, including models by Samsung, Huawei, LG and Sony. In these... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin TL;DR Cameras. We take them to every important life event, we bring them on our vacations, and we store them in a protective case to keep them safe during transit.... Click to Read More
Gaining code execution using a malicious SQLite database Research By: Omer Gull tl;dr SQLite is one of the most deployed software in the world. However, from a security perspective, it has only been... Click to Read More
Research By: Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Oded Vanunu According to sources, WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging application has over 1.5 billion users in over 180 countries. The average user checks WhatsApp more... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview Earlier this year, we published our research on the Reverse RDP Attack. In our previous blog post, we described how we found numerous critical vulnerabilities in popular Remote... Click to Read More
Introduction Cobalt Group is a financially motivated cyber-crime gang that has been active since at least 2016. The group is mainly interested in carrying out attacks against banks, in an attempt to access... Click to Read More
Research by: Ben Herzog Introduction When some people hear “Cryptography”, they think of their Wifi password, of the little green lock icon next to the address of their favorite website, and of the difficulty... Click to Read More
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