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
Research By: Omer Gull Introduction Many large organizations use Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to install customized operating systems on new machines in the network. The Windows Deployment Services is usually, by its... Click to Read More
Research By: Asaf G. and Adi I. Joomla! is one of the most popular CMS platforms and is used by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide. Over the years, many vulnerabilities were... Click to Read More
Research by: Arie Olshtein, Moshe Hayun, Arnold Osipov As time goes by, malware writers invent new methods to bypass security products. During our research, we came across an attack targeting Windows servers in... Click to Read More
Research by: Nadav Grossman Introduction In this article, we tell the story of how we found a logical bug using the WinAFL fuzzer and exploited it in WinRAR to gain full control over... Click to Read More
Introduction Over the past few weeks, we have been monitoring suspicious activity directed against Russian-based companies that exposed a predator-prey relationship that we had not seen before. For the first time we... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview Used by thousands of IT professionals and security researchers worldwide, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is usually considered a safe and trustworthy application to connect to remote computers.... Click to Read More
Check Point Research has discovered a new campaign exploiting Linux servers to implant a new Backdoor Trojan. Dubbed ‘SpeakUp’, the new Trojan exploits known vulnerabilities in six different Linux distributions. The attack... Click to Read More
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