Zero Trust usually starts with a clear goal: limit access to only what the business needs. The problem is what happens after the strategy meets daily operations. A cloud migration changes where workloads live. A contractor is granted temporary access…
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Amazon Prime Day 2026: Bargains Begin June 23 — and So Do the Scams
When Amazon Prime Day returns on June 23–26, 2026, more than 25 countries will take part in one of the largest shopping windows of the year. Spanning millions of products and generating billions of dollars in transactions in just 96…
What Successful Exposure Management Deployments Had in Common in 2026
Throughout 2026, Check Point Exposure Management was deployed across organizations spanning different industries, sizes, and levels of security maturity. While each environment was unique, the objective was remarkably consistent: bring exposure data into a single view, improve prioritization, and support…
From Stars to Upvotes: The Fake Reputation Economy Behind a Crypto Clipboard Hijackers
Key Findings Trust is being manufactured at scale. A single threat actor built a cross-platform ecosystem: a WordPress phishing hub, GitHub and SourceForge projects, a YouTube channel, crypto forums, and even posts on legitimate news sites, all engineered to make…
AI Red Teaming Makes the Unknowns Known
AI security is getting attention because AI has stopped being a side experiment. It is now part of how work gets done. Employees use copilots to write, research, code, and analyze. Product teams are adding AI into customer experiences. Developers are building…
Check Point and Illumio Expand Partnership to Secure Hybrid Environments
Building on our previous Illumio Insights integration, Check Point and Illumio are expanding their partnership with an integration to Illumio Segmentation, helping organizations prevent threats, expose risky paths, contain lateral movement across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and better align gateway…
The NCSC Patch Wave Is Coming. Do You Know Where Your Risk Lives?
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning organisations to prepare for an unprecedented wave of vulnerability disclosures, driven by AI-accelerated exploitation of technical debt. This commentary sets out how Check Point Exposure Management helps government, public sector, and CNI…
Energy, Healthcare, and Finance: Why Midwest Industries Are Facing Surging Cyber Attacks
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…
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,…