Retail Giant Walmart Ranks First in List of Brands Most Likely to be Imitated in Phishing Attempts in Q1 2023

Check Point Research’s latest Brand Phishing Report reveals it is all change at the top for most imitated brands with new entries from financial services and retail Our latest Brand Phishing Report for Q1 2023 highlights the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals’ personal information or payment credentials during January, February and March 2023. Multinational retail giant Walmart topped the ranking last quarter, accounting for 16% of all attempts and climbing from 13th place in Q4 2022. This is due to a significant phishing campaign urging victims to click on a malicious […]

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The Power of Zero Trust in DevOps Supply Chains

Building a DevOps supply chain requires thought and effort, and sometimes luck. Cyber security threats continue to increase as malicious actors become increasingly sophisticated, exposing businesses of all sizes. Today, it can be said with certainty that the only thing you can trust is distrust. But how do you protect your digital infrastructure when criminals just need one misconfiguration to paralyze your entire ecosystem? That’s where the Zero-Trust principles come in. Applying Zero Trust means your DevOps supply chain security measures must begin before any code hits production and must be implemented at all points of the DevOps cycle – […]

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Not all CNAPP Vendors Stack Up: Check Point CloudGuard Recognized as Representative Vendor in Gartner CNAPP Market Guide

Background Hackers are intensifying their efforts as the attack surface grows—targeting misconfigurations on the cloud infrastructure (network, compute, storage, identities, and permissions), APIs, and the software supply chain itself. According to Gartner research reports, this is driving an estimated market growth percentage of approximately 25%. Cloud security providers are taking note and merging more CWPP, CSPM, and CIEM solutions into a CNAPP offering for customers. Gartner, in their 2023 Market Guide for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, predicts that by 2025, 60% of all enterprises will be procuring their CWPP and CSPM solutions from one vendor. But more than the […]

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Safe Travels? Check Point Research puts a spotlight on a growing underground market selling flight points, hotel rewards and stolen credential of airline accounts

Highlights: Check Point Research (CPR) reveals a growing industry selling credentials to stolen hotel and airline accounts. End goal is to get access to accounts with reward points and sell it. CPR provides examples including dedicated brute forcing tool used to steal accounts, stolen credentials on sale and “travel agents” selling discounted flights retrieved using stolen airline / hotel accounts. Background With airline prices skyrocketing these days, amidst the global inflation, people are always seeking last minute sales, special offers and will usually be tempted to follow any lucrative offer that will decrease the heavy prices we all need to […]

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What do the inkblots tell you? Check Point Researchers Unveil “Rorschach,” previously unseen, fastest ever Ransomware

Highlights: Check Point Research (CPR) and Check Point Incident Response Team (CPIRT) detected a previously unnamed ransomware strain, now dubbed “Rorschach,” deployed against a US-based company. Highly customizable with technically unique features previously unseen in ransomware, Rorschach is one of the fastest ransomware ever observed. The ransomware was deployed using DLL side-loading of Palo Alto Network’s Cortex XDR, a signed commercial security product, in a loading method not commonly used to load ransomware. The information was properly disclosed to Palo Alto Networks.   Everyone sees something different   Check Point Research (CPR) is always on guard for new and emerging […]

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Quantum Titan’s AI Deep Learning Engines Detect and Block Zero-Day Phishing Attacks in Real Time

By Shiri Yaakobson and Ori Noga Since its launch in December 2022, Check Point’s patented inline ‘Zero Phishing’ technology has prevented dozens of zero-day phishing campaigns. In this blog post we aim to share three highlighted cases our engines prevented over the past month. New Zero-Phishing AI Engines – X4 more phishing pages detected, 40%…

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Top Vulnerabilities in 2023 and How to Block Them

By Mor Ahuvia, Product Marketing Manager Before cyber attackers can wage successful malware or ransomware campaigns, they have to gain access to their target environments. In 2022, half of the Check Point Incident Response Team’s cases resulted from attackers gaining access by exploiting known vulnerabilities. By the time malicious activities—ransomware, spoofed or forged emails, malware…

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3CXDesktop App Trojanizes in A Supply Chain Attack: Check Point Customers Remain Protected

30/3/2023  03:35 EST What is 3CXDesktop App? 3CXDesktopApp is a desktop client of 3CX voice over IP (VoIP) system. The application allows users to communicate within and outside the organization through their desktop or laptops. The app can record calls and facilitate video conferencing and can be used on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.…

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An Overview of the Quantum Revolution in Computing

Author: Julia Rabinovich Network Security Products March 2023 At Check Point Software Technologies, we are passionate about delivering the best security to our customers around the world. To accomplish this, we must stay ahead of cyber criminals by continuously innovating and considering new approaches for cybersecurity. One of the emerging technologies that we are following…

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Congratulations to Our 2023 CPX 360 Award Winners in EMEA

By Kristin Owens, Director, Functional Marketing & Executive Engagement, Check Point The Check Point CPX 360 Customer Awards demonstrate the creative ways in which Check Point customers are securing everything from endpoints to cloud-based assets and entire digital transformation initiatives. Meet this year’s winners from the EMEA region. Our customers always amaze us with their…

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Reliable SD-WAN Connectivity with Enterprise-Grade Security—The Best of Both Worlds

The Gartner SD-WAN forecast predicts that by 2025, 65% of enterprises will have implemented SD-WAN—up from 30% in 2020[1]. SD-WANs enable organizations to connect branch locations to the main data center, to each other, and to the cloud more easily and cost-effectively than by extending traditional MPLS networks. Users in branch locations can access cloud…

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Beware of Phishing Scams 3.0- The email you receive might not be from who you think it is

Highlights: Avanan a Check Point Company sees a spike in emails impersonating legitimate firms and services in the past 2 months of February and March 2023 PayPal and Google are the most impersonated services in these attacks Users are advised to remain cautious and be aware of links within any email, including those coming from…

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Detecting Malicious Packages on PyPI: Malicious package on PyPI use phishing techniques to hide its malicious intent

By, Ori Abramovsky Highlights: Check Point CloudGuard Spectralops detected a malicious phishing account on PyPI, the leading Python package index. Users installing the account packages were exposed to a malicious actor, probably a PII stealer. Once detected, we alerted PyPI on these packages. Soon after the packages were removed by the PyPI team. Intro PyPI…

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CNAPP in a Snap — How Agentless Workload Posture Improves Security Velocity

By Benny Zemmour – Group Manager Cloud Security Why Modern Development Demands an Agentless Workload Protection Solution What can you do when your security tools are holding you back? Are the solutions that keep you safe also inhibiting innovation? When your developers are creating something new and amazing, you don’t put anything in their way.…

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Checkmate: Check Point Research exposes security vulnerabilities on Chess.com

Highlights: Check Point Research (CPR) found security vulnerabilities on the chess.com platform that could allow users to manipulate the game’s results. According to the findings, our researchers were able to: Extract successful chess moves to solve online puzzle challenges and win puzzle ratings accordingly. Decrease an opponent’s time and win games accordingly. Check Point Research…

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Check Point Research conducts Initial Security Analysis of ChatGPT4, Highlighting Potential Scenarios For Accelerated Cybercrime

Highlights: Check Point Research (CPR) releases an initial analysis of ChatGPT4, surfacing five scenarios that can allow threat actors to streamline malicious efforts and preparations faster and with more precision. In some instances, even non-technical actors can create harmful tools. The five scenarios provided span impersonations of banks, reverse shells, C++ malware and more. Despite…

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Can your SASE solution block these top malware?

Malware is a go-to tactic and essential tool for attackers. According to Check Point Research’s 2023 Cyber Security Report, 32% of cyber attacks globally are based on multipurpose malware with email as the attack vector in 86% of those attacks. The most vicious malware are wipers, whose only purpose is to cause irreversible damage and…

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Beware of Fake Calls! It’s not really your bank calling. Check Point Research draws attention to a new Android Malware

Highlights: CPR alerts on an Android Trojan named “FakeCalls”, a voice phishing malware Malware can masquerade incoming calls as coming form known legitimate financial organizations, aiming to gain the victim’s trust and extract personal and financial data “FakeCalls” malware targets the South Korean market, faking calls from over 20 leading financial organizations Background When malware…

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Check Point Software Technologies Earns Top Spots in 19 G2 Leadership Grids

By Kristin Owens, Head of Functional Marketing & Executive Engagement, Check Point We at Check Point are proud to share that our products have been ranked as leading solutions in 19 categories of security software on G2. From firewalls to cloud, endpoint, and mobile security solutions—we’re pleased to be so popular! Check Point customers are…

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Is your security team concerned with unmanaged devices?

Secure all your organization’s devices in a few clicks. By Antoine Korulski and Adi Goldshtein Harel CISOs face major challenges in 2023 when defending against threats coming from unmanaged devices, used by third-party service providers, or employee personal devices (BYOD) to access SaaS or corporate web applications. Those attacks have many faces, including stealing sensitive…

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