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Threat Research December 10, 2013

The 2013 Android Vulnerability of the Year

Were we to pick the most notorious 2013 Android vulnerability - the dubious award would undoubtedly go to CVE-2013-6282. A privilege escalation flaw released in October and affects all Android versions 4.0-4.3. What makes this vulnerability so abysmal?

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Threat Research November 26, 2013

Check Point Threat Emulation Finds “Joke-of-the-day” Chain Letter is No Joke

Summary Check Point’s Threat Emulation Cloud Service recently detected an Excel document that runs a macro in order to change the computer’s background “as a joke”. Like other email chain letters, the message propagates when…

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Threat Research

Android Rooting Tools Recently Released: “VROOT” and “Motochopper”

Two new rooting tools against a wide spectrum of Android devices, ranging from version 4.0 till 4.4, were recently found. These tools allow an adversary to bypass the Android permission model and gain full control…

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Threat Research November 14, 2013

Defeating Cryptolocker with ThreatCloud and Gateway Threat Prevention

Summary Check Point’s Malware Research Group has been investigating the ‘Cryptolocker’ malware that has recently been reported to be on the rise. As part of the analysis, the researchers created a ‘sinkhole’ – a system…

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Threat Research November 1, 2013

Threat Emulation Exposes Widespread Malware Campaign

Summary On October 24, 2013, the Check Point ThreatCloud Emulation Service received six PDF document files from a European Union official agency running a Check Point threat prevention gateway. Automated analysis in the Threat Emulation…

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Threat Research October 25, 2013

LinkedIn Intro – A FAQ

There’s a lot of buzz regarding LinkedIn’s new iOS app – Intro. Some are hailing it, others hate it. To clarify what’s going on, we’ve put together this FAQ.

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Threat Research October 15, 2013

Viewpoints on Launching Lacoon

Michael Shaulov, CEO, Lacoon Mobile Security As a founder, I view the launch by first looking back at all that we’ve accomplished in the past two years. The first four months that Ohad and I…

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Threat Research August 28, 2013

Why the Feds are Getting the Mobile Threat Wrong

Yesterday, Public Intelligence – mainly, a public repository of government documents – released a joint DHS-FBI report “Threats to Mobile Devices Using the Android Operating System” (find it here). Granted, the report hasn’t been validated…

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Threat Research August 12, 2013

Security flaw in LG devices allows malware to root a device

A new vulnerability exploiting LG Android devices was published just yesterday at the XDA conference in Florida, Miami.  The vulnerability exists on various LG devices, including the flagship LG Optimus G, on a number of Android…

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Threat Research July 31, 2013

A Practical Attack Against MDM Solutions

We’re looking forward to presenting today at BlackHat USA 2013. It’s going to be our first time taking the stage at BlackHat Las Vegas – and we’re excited! As our title says – this is…

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