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Malicious activity targeting shoppers on Valentine’s Day has increased, warns cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research.

From the SolarWinds attacks throughout last year to the influx of Apache Log4j vulnerability exploitations, the 2022 Security Report conducted by Check Point Research reveals the key attack vectors and techniques in 2021.

Global logistics firm DHL was the most imitated brand in phishing attempts in the final quarter of 2021 tracked by the Israeli firm Check Point Research, with 23% of such emails containing a reference to the company.

A second case of NSA exploits being customised and used for attacks, before they were leaked on the Web by a group known as the Shadow Brokers in 2017, has come to light, this time following research by the Israel-based cyber security firm Check Point Research.

Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of Israeli security outfit Check Point Software Technologies, has disclosed details of a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the popular photo- and video-sharing app Instagram, that has close to a billion users.

A vulnerability in Guard Provider, a pre-installed app on mobile devices made by Xiaomi, allowed unsecured network traffic in both directions and could have allowed a threat actor to connect to the same Wi-Fi network and carry out a man-in-the-middle attack, the security firm Check Point says.

Security firm Check Point Research has revived the controversy over the flaws reported in some AMD processors by Israel-based CTS Labs last week, by saying that the way publication was done was "very irresponsible".