The ransomware landscape in Q3 2025 has reached a critical inflection point. Despite multiple law enforcement takedowns earlier in the year, ransomware attacks remain at historically high levels. Check Point Research tracked 1,592 new victims across 85 active extortion groups,…
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Payroll Pirates: One Network, Hundreds of Targets
Cyber threats don’t always come with warning signs. Sometimes, they arrive as sponsored ads. Since mid-2023, a financially motivated network has been quietly hijacking payroll systems, credit unions, and trading platforms across the U.S. Their method? Malvertising. Their goal? Money.…
Global Cyber Attacks Surge in October 2025 Amid Explosive Ransomware Growth and Rising GenAI Threats
Global Overview In October 2025, the global volume of cyber attacks continued its upward trajectory. Organizations worldwide experienced an average of 1,938 cyber attacks per week, marking a 2% increase from September and a 5% rise compared to October 2024.…
New Phishing Campaign Exploits Meta Business Suite to Target SMBs Across the U.S. and Beyond
With more than 5.4 billion users worldwide (according to Statista), Facebook remains the world’s most influential social platform and a critical marketing channel for small and medium-sized businesses. Its vast reach and trusted brand make it a prime target for…
Expanding CloudGuard: Our Journey to Secure GenAI Apps
When we first launched CloudGuard WAF, our mission to deliver the best web and API security in the world in terms of threat prevention rate, accuracy, and ease of management. Unlike traditional WAFs built on static signatures, CloudGuard WAF was…
We See Threats Before They Hit: How AI and Human Intelligence Are Rewriting Cyber Defense
In the cyber security community, the ability to see a threat before it strikes defines who stays safe and who gets hit. This was the central theme of Check Point’s recent Threat Intelligence live AMA Reddit webinar, where leading experts…
Check Point Software Achieves the Highest Security Effectiveness at 99.59% in NSS Labs Enterprise Firewall Test
As AI transforms cyber threats, NSS Labs recognition affirms Check Point’s leadership in prevention-first security, outperforming the competition. Enterprises around the world are rapidly adopting AI, and it is providing significant productivity and efficiency gains. While AI provides amazing productivity…
Inside the Rise of AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Scams
Introduction Over the past few months, we identified an emerging online threat that combines fraud, social engineering, and genuine health risks. Scammers are now impersonating licensed physicians and medical clinics to promote counterfeit or unsafe medications, frequently leveraging AI and…
Exploiting Trust in Collaboration: Microsoft Teams Vulnerabilities Uncovered
Trust alone isn’t a security strategy. That’s the key lesson from new research by Check Point Research, which uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Teams that could allow attackers to impersonate executives, manipulate messages, and spoof notifications. With more than 320…
Cracking XLoader with AI: How Generative Models Accelerate Malware Analysis
Key Highlights XLoader 8.0 malware is one of the most evasive and persistent information stealers in the wild, using multi-layer encryption, fake domains, and constant updates to avoid detection. Check Point Research used AI-assisted malware analysis to understand it faster…
Hezi Rash: Rising Kurdish Hacktivist Group Targets Global Sites
A new ideologically-motivated threat actor has emerged and growing technical capabilities: Hezi Rash. This Kurdish nationalist hacktivist group, founded in 2023, has rapidly escalated its presence through a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting countries perceived as hostile to…
How to Reduce Your TCO with Check Point’s SASE
Network security solutions can be complex and expensive to operate, especially when based on hardware appliances. Additionally, they can degrade performance, which can impact productivity. Adopting the right solution can help simplify the network, reduce costs, improve productivity and time…
How to reduce your TCO with Check Point’s SASE
Network security solutions can be complex and expensive to operate, especially when based on hardware appliances. Additionally, they can degrade performance, which can impact productivity. Adopting the right solution can help simplify the network, reduce costs, improve productivity and time…
Check Point AI Cloud Protect, Powered by NVIDIA BlueField, Now Available for Enterprise Deployment
The race to build AI is accelerating. Enterprises are investing billions in AI factories that power the creation and development of AI capabilities. While AI provides amazing productivity benefits, AI systems face unprecedented security challenges. More than half of enterprise…
AI 2030: The Coming Era of Autonomous Cyber Crime
Organizations around the world are rapidly adopting AI, including across the enterprise, where it is already providing significant efficiency gains. As a result, cyber security is entering a turning point where AI fights AI. The phishing scams and deepfakes of…
LockBit Returns — and It Already Has Victims
Key Takeaways LockBit is back. After being disrupted in early 2024, the ransomware group has resurfaced and is already extorting new victims. New version, new victims. Check Point Research identified a dozen organizations hit in September 2025, half by the…
The YouTube Ghost Network: How Check Point Research Helped Take Down 3,000 Malicious Videos Spreading Malware
Check Point Research uncovered the YouTube Ghost Network, a large-scale malware distribution operation that used fake and compromised YouTube accounts to distribute infostealers such as Rhadamanthys and Lumma. More than 3,000 malicious videos were identified and removed after being reported…
ChatGPT Atlas: The First Step Toward AI Operating Systems
The Big Picture OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is the prototype for how we’ll use computers in the future. Within a few years, operating systems will be powered by AI as users interact through prompts instead of clicking applications. You’ll describe…
The Rise of AI-Powered Threats and Other Mobile Risks Highlight Why It’s Time to Rethink Your Security Architecture
The recently released 2025 Verizon Mobile Security Index documents trends that CISOs and IT leaders have been seeing come together this year – and it’s clear that the vulnerability of mobile devices, the advancements of AI-powered threats, and persistent human…
AI-Powered Phishing Detection: The Next Generation Security Engine
Check Point is thrilled to introduce a continuously-trained AI-engine designed to analyze key information about websites, achieving remarkable results in detecting phishing attempts. Integrated with our ThreatCloud AI, it offers comprehensive protection across Quantum gateways, Harmony Email, Endpoint, and Harmony…