Publish date: March 1, 2018 Next week, we are all coming together at one of the world’s most renowned cyber security conferences, RSA Conference 2019, March 4 – 8 at the San Francisco Moscone…
By Amir Kaushansky, Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Security We all want a higher network performance. We all want a better price-performance ratio, and we all want all of it for free. As desirable…
A 19 year old, yet major, vulnerability was recently found by Check Point Research in the popular web application, WinRAR, that could potentially put over 500 million users at risk. The exploit works by simply…
By Richard Clayton, Research Product Marketing In the first installment of this 2019 Security Report we reviewed the latest trends and threats facing the IT security industry today. In the second we took a deeper…
In the first installment of this 2019 Security Report we reviewed the latest trends and threats facing the IT security industry today. In the second we took a deeper look at the cyber crime underworld to get a grasp on the democratization of cyb...
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 a victim’s computer. The exploit works by just extracting an archive,...
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 were observing what seemed to...
by Marina Segal – Lead Product Manager, CloudGuard Dome9, Check Point and Amir Kaushansky – Product Manager, Cloud Security, Check Point How it was Discovered: On February 11th, a critical vulnerability in runC binary was released.…
Check Point’s latest Global Threat Index sees emergence of SpeakUp – the Linux Trojan that’s undetectable by anti-virus software In January, our researchers detected a new campaign exploiting Linux servers to distribute a backdoor…
By Avi Rembaum, February 8th 2018 The phrase watershed moment is often overused. With our race to the cloud, the rapid rise in the number of devices connected to the Internet and a near…
