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Check Point Supports OpenAI’s Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense
AI is reshaping cybersecurity at extraordinary speed. Check Point Research is already uncovering AI-powered attacks in the wild, revealing how threat…
Stopping the AI Agent Actions No Rule Could See Coming
Check Point introduces a new class of contextual AI protection that understands an agent’s full context, intent and behavior across multiple steps, and…
Check Point Blocks Large-Scale Debt-Relief Email Phishing Campaign Targeting More Than 9,000 Organizations
Check Point has identified and blocked a large-scale email phishing campaign using fraudulent financial hardship and debt-relief offers to manipulate…
The Approved-App Blind Spot: When Sanctioned AI Becomes Shadow AI
At 9:03, an employee opens an approved AI assistant with a corporate account and asks it to summarize launch notes. At 9:27, a feature they need is…
Back-to-School Cyber Risks Surge as Education Remains the World’s Most Attacked Sector
From record attack volumes to phishing campaigns targeting students and educators, threat actors are exploiting one of the busiest periods of the academic…
The Mistake That Exposed a Global Cyber Crime Operation
Most cyber crime investigations reveal the aftermath of an attack. Few reveal the attackers themselves. That’s what makes Check Point Research‘s latest…
Reading the Signals in the OWASP LLM Top 10 2026
In this article OWASP has released the GenAI LLM Top 10 for 2026. The movement between rankings signals where AI security priorities are heading: toward…
July 2026 Cyber Threats Surge: Ransomware Attacks Double Year over Year as GenAI Data Exposure Widens
Key takeaways Weekly cyber attacks reached 2,336 per organization in July 2026, up 3% from June and 16% year over year Education remained the most…
State Sponsored Hackers Use Fake Job Offers to Deliver New Zero Day Exploit
It typically begins the same way it has for years, with an approach from a recruiter offering a role at a company the target would recognize, accompanied…
Ransomware Didn’t Slow Down in Q2 2026. It Just Spread Out.
Ransomware kept its grip on organizations through the second quarter of 2026, and the headline number barely moved. What changed underneath that number is…
Native AI Security Comes to Claude: Why Anthropic’s Inference Hooks Matter
Anthropic’s new inference hooks give enterprises a native enforcement point before prompts ever reach the model. Combined with Check Point Workforce AI…
July 2026 Cyber Threats Surge: Ransomware Attacks Double Year over Year as GenAI Data Exposure Widens
Key takeaways Weekly cyber attacks reached 2,336 per organization in July 2026, up 3% from June and 16% year over year Education remained the most…
State Sponsored Hackers Use Fake Job Offers to Deliver New Zero Day Exploit
It typically begins the same way it has for years, with an approach from a recruiter offering a role at a company the target would recognize, accompanied…
Native AI Security Comes to Claude: Why Anthropic’s Inference Hooks Matter
Anthropic’s new inference hooks give enterprises a native enforcement point before prompts ever reach the model. Combined with Check Point Workforce AI…
The Top Exposure Management Questions Security Leaders Ask (Part 1)
Security leaders evaluating Check Point Exposure Management tend to ask the same questions: how the solution discovers assets, what intelligence it…
Black Hat 2026: Check Point Research Takes the Stage
Black Hat USA 2026 gave Check Point Research four chances to show the room something it hadn’t seen before. Across two days, our researchers pulled apart…
When Data Becomes Instructions: AI Agents Need a Chain of Custody for Context
A few weeks ago, an AI cyber evaluation produced an unexpectedly efficient strategy for solving a benchmark: the agents went looking for the answers.…
Check Point Joins the Open Secure AI Alliance to Advance Open, Measurable and Enterprise-Ready AI Security
Check Point brings open research, objective benchmarks and customer-controlled runtime protection to the industry initiative introduced by NVIDIA. AI is…
Your VLAN Isn’t an Air Gap: Six Hard Truths From the New CI Fortify Guidance
More than 30 Minnesota water systems were hit in one coordinated cyber attack. Within days, the Five Eyes told critical infrastructure operators to be…