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Security Insights November 8, 2016

Denied! Dealing with Global Distributed Denial of Service

Cyber security has recently reached yet a new level of public awareness, as the world learned that an army of bots hosted on internet connected cameras were able to cause outages to well-known internet services…

Threat Research October 20, 2015

Digging for Groundhogs: Holes in Your Linux Server

In July 2015, Check Point’s Incident Response team was contacted by a customer after they noticed strange file system activities occurring in one of their Linux based DNS BIND servers. This strange behavior consisted of…

Security Insights July 6, 2015

Crime Marches On

What a long way we’ve come since the days of simply relying on firewalls. Just as threats have evolved—from an attack called Morris Worm to an attack called POODLE—so have the strategies and tools for…

Security Insights June 16, 2015

Check Point 2015 Security Report Paints a Picture of the Threat Landscape—And it’s Not Pretty

This month, Check Point released its annual security report—a trove of statistics and trends culled from collaborative research and in-depth analysis of more than 300,000 hours of monitored network traffic, from more than 16,000 Threat…

Threat Research May 20, 2015

Storm Kit – Changing the rules of the DDoS attack

Background Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is one of the most commonly used cybercriminal methods. It’s easy, cheap and difficult to trace, and “service providers” can be found throughout the “dark” Web. As a result,…

Threat Research March 13, 2015

Shiver Me Timbers! DDoS Attacks Caused by Pirate Bay Trackers and DNS Misconfigurations?

In January of 2015 the Check Point Incident Response team (CPIR) had two DDoS attack cases from separate customers with similar characteristics: The first case: On Saturday January 10th a US Children’s Hospital called the…