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: 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
2018 introduced a challenging threat landscape. Threat actors consistently improved their cyber weapons, adopted new methods and adapted their attacks to emerging technologies. And although it may have seemed the past year... Click to Read More
Research by: Alon Boxiner, Eran Vaknin and Oded Vanunu Played in a virtual world, players of ‘Fortnite’, the massively popular game from game developer Epic Games, are tasked with testing their endurance as... Click to Read More
Research By: Yoav Alon, Netanel Ben-Simon Introduction The year 2017 was an inflection point in the vulnerability landscape. The number of new vulnerabilities reported that year was around 14,000, which is over twice... Click to Read More
When it comes to ransomware attacks, there is nothing a company hates more than paying the demanded ransom. It is an unexpected fine often caused by a tiny, yet crucial mistake –... Click to Read More
The Story of An Innovative Banking Malware Research By: Itay Cohen Introduction The BackSwap banker has been in the spotlight recently due to its unique and innovative techniques to steal money from... Click to Read More
Research by: Ido Solomon and Adi Ikan Crypto-Mining attacks have grown and evolved in 2018. Due to the rise in value and popularity of crypto currencies, hackers are increasingly motivated to exploit... Click to Read More
Over the last few weeks, we have noticed new activity from Hades, the APT group behind the infamous Olympic Destroyer attack. Moreover, this new wave of attack shares a lot with those... Click to Read More
