Across the United States, the average organization faced slightly fewer cyber attacks per week in May 2026 than it did a year earlier, according to Check Point Research — the national figure was essentially flat year over year. In the…
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Travel Phishing and Cyber Attacks are Surging in 2026, Growing 122% over the last 3 years. Here’s What Cyber Criminals Are Actually Doing
Every summer, hundreds of millions of people book flights, reserve hotels, and plan vacations online. And every summer, cyber criminals show up to take advantage of exactly that. Check Point Research tracked the threat landscape heading into the 2026 summer…
The AI Your Security Team Can’t See Is the One You Should Worry About
Shadow AI is no longer a theoretical risk. Employees are adopting AI tools faster than security teams can track them, often without IT’s knowledge, and frequently on devices and surfaces that traditional security tools simply can’t see. If you asked your security team right now…
Check Point Engage Public Sector 2026: AI Is the New Battlefield
Last week, public sector leaders, cyber security practitioners, and technology experts gathered at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. for Check Point Engage Public Sector: Securing the Mission of Public Sector Organizations in a Hyperconnected AI World. And what…
Check Point Joins OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber Program and Daybreak Initiative
The model behind a security workflow shapes how fast a threat is caught, how accurately an incident is investigated, and how much a defender can trust the result. We treat that choice with care. Today we’re taking a clear step…
When Your AI Agent’s Memory Becomes a Security Liability
Key Findings: Check Point Research identified a critical vulnerability chain in LangGraph, an open-source framework from the creators of LangChain that enables developers to build complex, stateful, and controllable AI agent workflows using LLMs; they have approximately 46.5 million monthly downloads, making it one of the most widely…
AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise Workers. Who Secures Them?
A sales operations team builds an AI agent to help manage renewal requests. On the surface, the workflow looks ordinary. The agent reads inbound customer emails, checks the account record in the CRM, looks up contract terms, drafts a response,…
Global Cyber Attacks Ease in May 2026, But Ransomware Surges 48% As Threats Reorganize
Attack Volumes Pull Back, But the Bigger Picture Tells a Different Story In May 2026, global cyber-attack activity eased from April’s sharp rebound, though the underlying trends offer little genuine comfort. Organizations experienced an average of 2,055 weekly cyber-attacks, a…
Security Advisory – Action Required – Active Exploitation of Check Point VPN Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-50751)
Check Point Research has identified active exploitation of CVE-2026-50751, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Check Point Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol. By exploiting a logic flaw in certificate…
Fraud, Ransomware, and Fake Apps Are Already Targeting FIFA 2026
The FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off on June 11. Across 16 cities in the US, Canada, and Mexico, billions of people will be watching, traveling, betting, and spending. Threat actors have been watching too, and for far longer. Check…
The AI Defense Plane: Securing the New Enterprise Execution Layer
Enterprise security has always had a comforting assumption baked into it: systems do what they were built to do. Sometimes badly. Sometimes insecurely. Sometimes in ways that make auditors develop a nervous twitch. But still, the basic shape was understandable.…
The Meta AI Account Recovery Incident Wasn’t Just a Chatbot Problem
When people hear about hackers “asking an AI chatbot” to help them take over Instagram accounts, the instinctive reaction is to file it under prompt injection, jailbreaks, or “the model got tricked.” That may be the wrong lesson. According to…
The 2026 U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, But it’s Not at the Ballot Box
As the U.S. approaches the 2026 elections in November, the greatest threat to voting integrity will likely not be from hackers targeting voting machines or altering ballots, but from a growing war over reality itself. Voter influence operations are increasingly focused on manipulating the information environment surrounding voters,…
The Server Seizure That Affects Also Iran’s Cyber Operations
On May 22, 2026, Dutch financial-crime investigators walked into data centers in Dronten and Schiphol-Rijk and seized approximately 800 servers. The target was WorkTitans B.V., a hosting provider that, on the surface, looked like any other internet infrastructure company. What…
Check Point Lays the Groundwork for the Future of AI Factory Security with NVIDIA
At GTC Taipei during COMPUTEX 2026, NVIDIA is highlighting the growing adoption of its NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX architecture and introducing new NVIDIA DOCA-powered innovations designed to secure the next generation of enterprise AI infrastructure. As organizations continue scaling AI…
The Autonomous Security Platform Built for Attacker Speed
Attackers are now agentic. AI agents run reconnaissance, test exploits, and weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed – collapsing the mean time from CVE disclosure to confirmed exploitation from 2.3 years in 2018 to roughly 10 hours in 2026, with 72.7%…
2026 Cloud Security Report: Why Traditional Network, Cloud, and Security Architecture Are Lagging Behind the AI Transformation
As AI rapidly reshapes industries, the role of the cloud has become even more critical. From automated customer experiences to intelligent cyber security and predictive analytics, AI transformations are increasingly being built on a cloud-first foundation. Over the past two…
Check Point Frontier AI Models Readiness Program – Security Update
At Check Point we don’t wait for threats to evolve; we evolve ahead of them. This is why we’ve been running our Frontier AI Models Readiness Program: a proactive, structured initiative designed to ensure that our products remain resilient as…
AI Attacks Are No Longer Experimental: Key Findings from the March-April 2026 AI Threat Landscape
Between late December 2025 and mid-February 2026, Gambit found that a single operator compromised nine Mexican government agencies, reaching tax records, civil registry data, patient files, and electoral infrastructure across a two-month campaign. What made it remarkable was not the…
Protect GenAI Chatbots with Check Point WAF
Generative AI chatbots are quickly becoming the new front door to your business. They answer customer questions, support employees, guide buyers, and increasingly connect to internal documents, APIs, knowledge bases, and business workflows. That convenience creates a new risk for…