Research by: Kobi Eisenkraft, Arie Olshtein Introduction Redaman is a form of banking malware distributed by phishing campaigns that target mostly Russia language speakers. First seen in 2015 and reported as the RTM... Click to Read More
Research by: Gil Mansharov and Alexey Bukhteyev Introduction In its 2018 annual publication, the FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) reported a 242% rise in extortion emails, the majority of which are “sextortion”,... Click to Read More
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
The first half of 2019 demonstrated that no environment is immune to cyber attacks. We have witnessed threat actors developing new tool sets and techniques, targeting corporate assets stored on cloud infrastructure, individuals’... Click to Read More
Research by: Aviran Hazum, Feixiang He, Inbal Marom, Bogdan Melnykov, Andrey Polkovnichenko Check Point Researchers recently discovered a new variant of mobile malware that quietly infected around 25 million devices, while... Click to Read More
A View into New Nasty Tricks and Actor Activity Research By: Israel Gubi Background Smokeloader is a popular bot and a veteran in its field – being sold on underground cybercriminal markets... Click to Read More
