The most common way for malware to get onto a PC is via files downloaded from the web. According to Exploits at the Endpoint: SANS 2016 Threat Landscape Study, 41 percent of people suffered their worst security events from drive by downloads and 80 percent suffered phishing attacks. Threat protection specialist CheckPoint is launching a new anti-malware and anti-phishing extension for web browsers to address this growth in web-based malware and social engineering attacks. SandBlast Agent for Browsers is an extension for Internet Explorer and Chrome (a Firefox version will be coming later) which stops zero day web-based malware, phishing … Continue reading CheckPoint launches real-time zero day browser protection