Introduction Check Point Research recently observed a new wave of campaigns against various targets worldwide that utilizes a strain of a 13-year old backdoor Trojan named Bandook. Bandook, which had almost disappeared from... Click to Read More
Introduction Last weekend we issued a ransomware alert about a wave of attacks using a never-seen-before strain dubbed ‘Pay2Key.’ Our investigation suggested the ransomware operators were mostly targeting Israeli companies. The ransomware used... Click to Read More
Introduction Over the past week, an exceptional number of Israeli companies reported ransomware attacks. While some of the attacks were carried out by known ransomware strands like REvil and Ryuk, several large corporations... Click to Read More
Research By: Eyal Itkin and Itay Cohen Introduction Exploits have always been an important and integral part of malicious attacks. They allow attackers to gain capabilities that are not easy to achieve otherwise.... Click to Read More
Research by: Itay Cohen, Eyal Itkin In the past months, our Vulnerability and Malware Research teams joined efforts to focus on the exploits inside the malware and specifically, on the exploit writers themselves.... Click to Read More
Introduction Check Point Research unraveled an ongoing surveillance operation by Iranian entities that has been targeting Iranian expats and dissidents for years. While some individual sightings of this attack were previously reported by... Click to Read More
Introduction Most of the time, the relationship between cybercrime campaigns and malware strains is simple. Some malware strains, like the gone-but-not-forgotten GandCrab, are intimately tied to a single actor, who is using the... Click to Read More
Research By: Alex Ilgayev Introduction The notorious banking trojan Qbot has been in business for more than a decade. The malware, which has also been dubbed Qakbot and Pinkslipbot, was discovered in 2008... Click to Read More
Research By: Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin , Yaara Shriki Introduction & Motivation “Please lower the temperature of the AC, it’s getting humid in here,” said Eric to Alexa, who turned the AC to... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Background Everyone is familiar with the concept of IoT, the Internet of Things, but how many have heard of smart lightbulbs? You can control the light in your house, and... Click to Read More
Debugging is the essential part of malware analysis. Every time we need to drill down into malware behavior, restore encryption methods or examine communication protocols – generally, whenever we need to examine memory... Click to Read More
No Actual Daters Harmed in This Exercise Research by Alon Boxiner, Eran Vaknin With over 50 million registered users since its launch, and the majority aged between 25 and 34, OkCupid is... Click to Read More
In the past six months, the way we live and work has changed beyond recognition. To put it simply – life on earth has gone online. The change was not gradual but happened... Click to Read More
Research by: Sagi Tzadik Introduction DNS, which is often described as the “phonebook of the internet”, is a network protocol for translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. Because it is such a... Click to Read More
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview In many companies, the daily routine involves coming to the office each day to work on your company computer, safely inside the corporate network. Once in a while, a... Click to Read More
