April 29, 2018 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... Click to Read More
By: Eyal Itkin – April 29, 2018 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... Click to Read More
April 26, 2018 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... Click to Read More
April 24, 2018 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... Click to Read More
April 15, 2018 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... Click to Read More
By Eyal Shalev, Rotem Reiss and Eran Vaknin – April 12, 2018 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... Click to Read More
April 3, 2018 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... Click to Read More
April 1, 2018 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... Click to Read More
March 29, 2018 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... Click to Read More
Research By: Feixiang He, Bohdan Melnykov, Elena Root – March 14, 2018 Key Findings: RottenSys, a mobile adware, has infected nearly 5 million devices since 2016. Indications show the malware could have entered earlier... Click to Read More
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