Check Point Research warns of potential Amazon mystery box scam

Check Point Research (CPR), the threat intelligence arm ofCheck Point® Software Technologies Ltd. warns of a potential phishing scam involving Amazon’s Mystery Boxes.

CPR’s mid-year security report reveals global rise of cyber-attacks

Organizations have experienced a 29% increase in cyber-attacksglobally.The EMEA region showed the highest growth with 36%, followed by the Americas with an increase of 34% with APAC witnessing a 13% growth in attacks.

Four security vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Office by CPR

CPR discovered vulnerable functions inside MSGraph. Similar code checks confirmed that the vulnerable function was commonly used across multiple different Microsoft Office products, such as Excel, Office Online Server and Excel for OSX.