Google Play Bitten by Sharkbot Info-stealer ‘AV Solution’

Researchers have found the info-stealing Android malware Sharkbot lurking unsuspected in the depths of the Google Play store under the cover of anti-virus AV solutions. While analyzing suspicious applications on the store, the Check Point Research CPR team found what purported to be genuine AV...

SharkBot Banking Trojan Resurfaces On Google Play Store Hidden Behind 7 New Apps

As many as seven malicious Android apps discovered on the Google Play Store masqueraded as antivirus solutions to deploy a banking trojan called SharkBot. "SharkBot steals credentials and banking information," Check Point researchers Alex Shamshur and Raman Ladutska said in a report shared with T...

Check Point Response to Spring Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-22963, CVE-2022-22946, CVE-2022-22947, CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell), CVE-2022-22950

Solution On March 29, 2022, new CVEs were published on Spring Cloud: CVE-2022-22963, CVE-2022-22946, CVE-2022-22947, and CVE-2022-22950. On March 31, 2022, a bypass to the fix for CVE-2010-1622 was published by Praetorian, and received the nickname "Spring4Shell" see Spring Core on JDK9+ is...

Check Point Response to CVE-2022-0778 - possible infinite loop when parsing ECDSA certificates/keys in OpenSSL

Symptoms - A vulnerability was found in OpenSSL, making it possible to trigger an infinite loop by crafting a certificate with invalid explicit curve parameters. Because certificate parsing occurs before verification of the certificate signature, a process that parses an externally supplied...

Social Media Hijacking Malware Spreading Through Gaming Apps on Microsoft Store

A new malware capable of controlling social media accounts is being distributed through Microsoft's official app store in the form of trojanized gaming apps, infecting more than 5,000 Windows machines in Sweden, Bulgaria, Russia, Bermuda, and Spain. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point dubbe...

Iranian State Broadcaster Clobbered by ‘Clumsy, Buggy’ Code

Footage of opposition leaders calling for the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader ran on several of the nation’s state-run TV channels in late January after a state-sponsored cyber-attack on Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. The incident – one of a series of politically motivated attacks in Iran...

TrickBot Ravages Customers of Amazon, PayPal and Other Top Brands

Cyberattackers are targeting 60 different high-profile companies with the TrickBot malware, researchers have warned, with many of those in the U.S. The goal is to attack those companies’ customers, according to Check Point Research CPR, which are being cherry-picked for victimization. According t...

TrickBot Malware Targeted Customers of 60 High-Profile Companies Since 2020

The notorious TrickBot malware is targeting customers of 60 financial and technology companies, including cryptocurrency firms, primarily located in the U.S., even as its operators have updated the botnet with new anti-analysis features. "TrickBot is a sophisticated and versatile malware with mor...

Check Point Response to CVE-2021-4034 - local privilege escalation in polkit's pkexec

Symptoms - A Local Privilege Escalation from any user to root was discovered in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution. The vulnerability allows unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according to predefined policies. Fo...

Check Point Response to CVE-2021-36347, CVE-2021-36348, CVE-2021-36346, CVE-2021-3712 - Dell iDRAC8 / iDRAC9 vulnerabilities

Cause See Dell's DSA-2021-259: Dell EMC iDRAC Security Update for Multiple Security Vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-36347 CVE-2021-36348 CVE-2021-36346 CVE-2021-3712 Symptoms - Dell published CVE-2021-36347 for iDRAC8 versions before 2.82.82.82 and iDRAC9 versions before 5.00.20.00 - Dell published...

CVE-2021-30360

Users have access to the directory where the installation repair occurs. Since the MS Installer allows regular users to run the repair, an attacker can initiate the installation repair and place a specially crafted EXE in the repair folder which runs with the Check Point Remote Access Client...

Design/Logic Flaw

Users have access to the directory where the installation repair occurs. Since the MS Installer allows regular users to run the repair, an attacker can initiate the installation repair and place a specially crafted EXE in the repair folder which runs with the Check Point Remote Access Client...

Enterprise Endpoint Security 代码问题漏洞

Check Point Enterprise Endpoint Security is an advanced protection focused on traditional endpoints and modern mobile devices from Check Point Israel. A security vulnerability exists in Enterprise Endpoint Security E86.20 Windows Clients that originates from a user having access to the directory...

CVE-2021-30360

Users have access to the directory where the installation repair occurs. Since the MS Installer allows regular users to run the repair, an attacker can initiate the installation repair and place a specially crafted EXE in the repair folder which runs with the Check Point Remote Access Client...

‘Malsmoke’ Exploits Microsoft’s E-Signature Verification

Threat actors are exploiting Microsoft’s digital signature verification to steal user credentials and other sensitive information by delivering the ZLoader malware, which previously has been used to distribute Ryuk and Conti ransomware, researchers have found. Researchers at Check Point Research...

New Zloader Banking Malware Campaign Exploiting Microsoft Signature Verification

An ongoing ZLoader malware campaign has been uncovered exploiting remote monitoring tools and a nine-year-old flaw concerning Microsoft's digital signature verification to siphon user credentials and sensitive information. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Research, which has been trackin...

Experts Detail Logging Tool of DanderSpritz Framework Used by Equation Group Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have offered a detailed glimpse into a system called DoubleFeature that's dedicated to logging the different stages of post-exploitation stemming from the deployment of DanderSpritz, a full-featured malware framework used by the Equation Group. DanderSpritz came to light...

China suspends deal with Alibaba for not sharing Log4j 0-day first with the government

China's internet regulator, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology MIIT, has temporarily suspended a partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, for six months on account of the fact that it failed to promptly inform the governmen...

New Phorpiex Botnet Variant Steals Half a Million Dollars in Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency users in Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Guatemala, and the Philippines are being targeted by a new variant of the Phorpiex botnet called Twizt that has resulted in the theft of virtual coins amounting to $500,000 over the last one year. Israeli security firm Check Point Research, which...

Log4Shell Is Spawning Even Nastier Mutations

The internet has a fast-spreading, malignant cancer – otherwise known as the Apache Log4j logging library exploit – that’s been rapidly mutating and attracting swarms of attackers since it was publicly disclosed last week. Most of the attacks focus on cryptocurrency mining done on victims’ dimes,...