The technology sector, the most impersonated industry in brand phishing
The technology sector remained the most impersonated industry in brand phishing due to its wide usage in corporate and remote work environments, according to ...
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2023, the year of mega ransomware attacks
Check Point Research's analysis of global cyber attack data reveals that 2023 was a year of mega ransomware attacks, with ...
Hackers are finding insiders on the darknet, study finds
Insiders continuously offer their services while cybercriminals seek collaborators to help them attack from the inside, according to a report by Check ...
Tight integration may be the route to better security posture
According to Check Point Research (CPR) cyberattacks in Asia-Pacific (APAC) grew 168% year on year in 2021, with one period ...
Prevention is the best approach to ransomware protection
Check Point Research (CPR) reports that there are 40% more attacks weekly on organisations in 2021 compared to 2020. That’s ...
Cloud-native architecture prove resilient against cyber attacks
The move to the cloud is no longer an aspiration but an urgent mandate in the post-pandemic world. To overcome ...
FutureCISO Security Alert: Beware using cartoon avatars
Check Point Research (CPR) raises some concerns particularly about how one app, Voila, because it includes specific and unique installation ...
FutureCISO Security Alert: A malware by any other name
Cybercriminals are now turning to data theft as a primary objective to ensure their ransom demands are met, otherwise, they ...
FutureCISO Security Alert: The consequence of wilful ignorance of cyber risks
ABI Research says the success of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack exposed wilful ignorance to take cybersecurity seriously
Microsoft keeps favourite phishing brand crown in Q4 2020
Check Point Research issues Q4 Brand Phishing Report, highlighting the leading brands that hackers imitated in attempts to lure people ...
Qbot Trojan bags top malware stop
Check Point researchers find dangerous new Qbot variant is spreading via malspam campaigns to execute credentials theft, ransomware installation and ...
CISO Alert: COVID-19 vaccine – a new playground for threat actors
This is a community problem that continues to exist. The victims are consumers and enterprises. The winners are threat actors. ...
Are bug bounties good or bad?
In this exclusive interview with FutureCIO, Maya Horowitz, director of Threat Intelligence and Research at Check Point Software Technologies talks ...
December 2019’s most wanted malware: Christmas and Greta Thunberg-themed spam used to spread Emotet malware
Emotet was the leading malware threat for the third month running, and was being spread using a range of spam ...
Check Point detects a serious defect in WhatsApp
Research identified flaw that would allow a bad actor to create a malicious group message to crash WhatsApp on users’ ...
OTA provisioning standard not phishing proof
Without a stronger form of authentication, it is easy for a malicious agent to launch a phishing attack through over-the-air ...
