Introduction Over the last few years, the adoption of Office 365 in the corporate sector has significantly increased. Its popularity has attracted the attention of cybercriminals who launch phishing campaigns specifically to attack... Click to Read More
Italian company exposed on Clearnet earned up to $ 500,000 helping cybercriminals to deliver malware using cloud drives. Recently, we wrote about the network dropper known as GuLoader, which has been very actively... Click to Read More
Introduction Since 2013, many official websites belonging to governments worldwide were hacked and defaced by an attacker who self-identified as ’VandaTheGod.’ The hacker targeted governments in numerous countries, including: Brazil, the Dominican Republic,... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview One of our goals for every research project we work on in Check Point Research is to get an intimate understanding of how software work: What components do they... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview During 2019, we published our research on the Reverse RDP Attack: Part 1 and Part 2. In those blog posts, we described how we found numerous critical vulnerabilities... Click to Read More
Introduction Recently Check Point Research discovered new evidence of an ongoing cyber espionage operation against several national government entities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This operation, which we were able to... Click to Read More
Research By: Netanel Ben-Simon and Yoav Alon Background: In our previous research, we used WinAFL to fuzz user-space applications running on Windows, and found over 50 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Microsoft Edge.... Click to Read More
In mid-2017, The Shadow Brokers exposed NSA files in a leak known as "Lost In Translation". Recently, researcher uncovered "Nazar", a previously-unknown APT that was mentioned in the leak. We decided to dive into each and every one of the components and share our technical analysis. What we found out, is far from being "advanced".
Research by: Aviran Hazum, Bogdan Melnykov, Chana Efrati, Danil Golubenko, Israel Wernik, Liav Kuperman, Ohad Mana Overview: Check Point researchers discovered a new Cerberus variant which is targeting a multinational conglomerate, and is... Click to Read More
Research by: Omri Herscovici and Sagi Tzadik Overview The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live and work. “Sheltering in place” requires many people to work from home, thereby necessitating the use... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin, Gili Yankovitch Introduction During 35C3, Gili Yankovitch (@cytingale) and I attended a great talk called: “Memsad – Why Clearing Memory is Hard” (https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9788-memsad). In his talk, Ilja van Sprundel presented... Click to Read More
by Matan Ben David Introduction On December 16 2019, Check Point’s Incident Response Team (CPIRT) was engaged by three firms in the finance sector to investigate fraudulent wire transfers sent from their joint... Click to Read More
Overview Picture this scene: you arrive at the office one morning to find that cybercriminals have accessed your entire corporate network and encrypted all your files and databases, bringing the operations of your... Click to Read More
Where do malware payloads come from? It’s a question with an apparently trivial answer. Usually these sit on dedicated servers owned by the campaign managers, and occasionally on a legitimate website that has... Click to Read More
Introduction Launching an attack does not always require high technical aptitude on the part of a threat actor, especially when there are ready-made tools available for every stage of the infection chain. Delivery... Click to Read More
