Check Point Launches New Research Online Platform and Releases Mid-Year Cyber Attack Trends Report
August 17 2017 - 9:00AM
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP), today
launched a new online platform, Check Point Research, providing
cyber threat intelligence insights to the greater community. Check
Point Research is a platform to inform the threat intelligence
community on original Check Point research, top trends in the cyber
security space, and details on the current threat landscape.
Coinciding with the launch of this new online research platform,
Check Point also released its Cyber Attack Trends: Mid-Year Report.
The report provides a comprehensive overview of the malware
landscape in the top categories of ransomware, banking and mobile
threats - based on threat intelligence data drawn from Check
Point’s ThreatCloud World Cyber Threat Map between January and June
2017.
Astonishingly, the research finds that in the first half of
2017, 23.5% of organizations were impacted by the RoughTed
malvertising campaign, and that 19.7% of organizations were
impacted by the Fireball malware. In addition, ransomware attacks
in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) were nearly
double that detected in the same timeframe last year.
The report highlights a number of key trends during the
period:
- Mutation of adware: The Fireball malware has
led to a major change in the approach to stop adware, especially
adware owned by massive, seemingly-legitimate organizations. In
parallel, mobile adware botnets also continue to expand and
dominate the mobile malware arena.
- Nation-state cyber weapons: The leak and
consequent availability of key nation-state hacking tools, zero-day
vulnerabilities, exploits and attack methods now enables any
potential hacker to carry out sophisticated attacks.
- Evolution of macro-based downloaders: During
the past six months, new methods for exploiting Microsoft Office
files have been detected. Those methods no longer require victims
to open the door for the attackers by enabling macros.
- A new wave of mobile bankers: The perpetrators
combined open-sourced banking malware code with complex obfuscation
techniques to successfully and repeatedly bypass protections,
making it difficult to detect.
- Ransomware Surge: The percentage of ransomware
attacks in all three regions, Americas, EMEA and APAC, almost
doubled in the first half of 2017 compared to the first half of
2016—from an average of 26% to an average of 48% of the three main
attack categories worldwide.
“Organizations are struggling to effectively counteract the
abundance of threats now in play. Hackers are making malware more
sophisticated, and so the ability for unskilled hackers to inflict
damage has risen dramatically,” said Maya Horowitz, Threat
Intelligence Group Manager at Check Point. “With all the cyber
threats in circulation, many organizations still do not have the
right security defenses in place, and are focusing on a detection
approach rather than implementing a proactive prevention solution
that would block the attacks in the first place.”
The Check Point research team collects and analyzes global cyber
attack data stored on Check Point’s Threat Cloud to keep hackers at
bay. Check Point Research publications, such as the Cyber Attack
Trends Report, fuel a conversation around new cyber threats, trends
and additional threat security insights. Check Point Research is
designed to be a resource for organizations to better understand
the threat landscape and protect themselves against cyber
threats.
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About Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is
the largest network cyber security vendor globally, providing
industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyber
attacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of
threats. Check Point offers a complete security architecture
defending enterprises – from networks to mobile devices – in
addition to the most comprehensive and intuitive security
management. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all
sizes.
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