SecurityWeek, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities
Check Point patched two critical VPN flaws (CVSS 9.8) that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution.
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Check Point, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
PuzzleMask: The Prompt Injection Hiding in Plain Sight
A technique embedding policy-violating content in natural grammatical text to slip past LLM-based gatekeepers.
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Check Point, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
August 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: GenAI Data Exposure Emerges as a New Enterprise Risk
Average GenAI prompts per user reached 106 in August, and 86 percent of organizations still saw high-risk activity.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Gambling Goblin: A Chinese-Speaking Actor Hijacks Brazilian Government Sites to Fuel a Global SEO Fraud Machine
Check Point Research tracks Gambling Goblin, which compromises Brazilian government web servers to power a global SEO fraud operation.
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Check Point, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
AI Observability Must Evolve for the Agentic Era
Check Point argues agent observability must capture decision traces and be able to stop unsafe actions before they execute.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
The Inbox Is Disappearing. Why Security Must Follow the Workspace
Check Point argues email-centric security no longer fits a workspace spanning browsers, SaaS, collaboration tools, identities and AI agents.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Security Hardening Assessment: Prepare for AI Transformation Without Increasing Risk
Check Point's Security Hardening Assessment finds gaps such as excessive permissions and misconfigurations before AI adoption amplifies them.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Stopping the AI Agent Actions No Rule Could See Coming
Check Point introduces contextual AI protection that judges an agent's intent and behavior across steps, not single payloads.
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Check Point, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Check Point Blocks Large-Scale Debt-Relief Email Phishing Campaign Targeting More Than 9,000 Organizations
Check Point blocked roughly 24,700 debt-relief phishing emails aimed at more than 9,000 organizations over 14 days.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 24th, 2026
24th August - Threat Intelligence Report
Check Point's weekly bulletin reports a Latvian CSDD breach affecting payment records of over 1.2 million people.
more → Check Point, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
The Approved-App Blind Spot: When Sanctioned AI Becomes Shadow AI
Check Point shows how approved AI tools drift into shadow AI through personal accounts, SaaS updates and browser extensions.
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Check Point, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Thousands of Hacked WordPress Sites, One Operation: Unmasking StopAndProtect
Check Point traces the StopAndProtect ransomware family to a ClickFix chain running through thousands of hacked WordPress sites.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
The Mistake That Exposed a Global Cyber Crime Operation
Check Point Research says OPSEC failures by the StopAndProtect operation exposed its own infrastructure and 5,000+ victims.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Reading the Signals in the OWASP LLM Top 10 2026
Check Point reads the 2026 OWASP GenAI LLM Top 10 and finds AI security priorities shifting toward agency and consequences.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 17th, 2026
17th August - Threat Intelligence Report
Check Point's weekly threat intelligence bulletin covers a ransomware attack on Colombia's Ministry of Justice and other incidents.
more → Check Point, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
The State of Ransomware Q2 2026
Check Point's State of Ransomware Q2 2026 finds the ecosystem spreading out rather than concentrating further.
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Check Point, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Ransomware Didn't Slow Down in Q2 2026. It Just Spread Out.
Check Point finds Q2 2026 ransomware volumes flat but activity dispersing across more capable small groups.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
July 2026 Cyber Threats Surge: Ransomware Attacks Double Year Over Year as GenAI Data Exposure Widens
Check Point reports weekly attacks hit 2,336 per organisation in July 2026 as GenAI data exposure widens.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Shattering the Dream - When a Job Offer Becomes a Zero-Day Attack
Check Point Research tracks a new Operation Dream Job wave using weaponised PDF viewers against defence firms.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
State Sponsored Hackers Use Fake Job Offers to Deliver New Zero Day Exploit
Check Point details a Lazarus-linked campaign exploiting an undisclosed Windows zero-day via fake job offers.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 10th, 2026
10th August - Threat Intelligence Report
Check Point's weekly threat intelligence report covers a cyberattack on North Carolina Ports.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Native AI Security Comes to Claude: Why Anthropic's Inference Hooks Matter
Check Point explains how Anthropic's new inference hooks create a native enforcement point for enterprise AI security.
more → Check Point, Friday, August 7th, 2026
The Top Exposure Management Questions Security Leaders Ask (Part 1)
Check Point answers the exposure management questions security leaders ask most, covering discovery, intelligence, and integration.
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Check Point, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
When Data Becomes Instructions: AI Agents Need a Chain of Custody for Context
Check Point argues AI agents need a chain of custody for context because data can become instructions.
more → Check Point, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
Your VLAN Isn't an Air Gap: Six Hard Truths from the New CI Fortify Guidance
Check Point draws six hard truths from new CI Fortify guidance after 30 Minnesota water systems were attacked.
more → Check Point, Friday, July 31st, 2026
AI Escaped a Sandbox. That Is Not What Should Worry You
Check Point argues the real lesson of the OpenAI and Anthropic testing incidents is about evaluation boundaries, not escape.
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Check Point, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Introducing the Industry's First AI Network Firewall
Check Point launches a firewall built to inspect prompts, model calls, and agent actions as first-class network traffic.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Your AI Governance Policy Should Survive Your Next Model Change
Check Point argues AI governance controls should be tied to data and workflow, not to a specific model version.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
AI Agent Security Just Had Its Catalyst Moment
Check Point reads the Hugging Face incident as the moment agent runtime governance became unavoidable.
more → Check Point, Monday, July 27th, 2026
27th July Threat Intelligence Report
Check Point's weekly bulletin covers a ransomware attack on Japanese food logistics firm Nichirei and other incidents.
more → Check Point, Monday, July 20th, 2026
20th July - Threat Intelligence Report
Check Point's weekly threat report covers EY and Jscrambler breaches and China-linked AI-driven attacks.
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Check Point, Friday, July 17th, 2026
The State Of Hybrid SASE: Built-In Vs. Bolted-On
Check Point distinguishes three tiers of hybrid SASE maturity and argues built-in architectures beat bolted-on integrations.
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Check Point, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
AI Security Is Never Finished: Building The Continuous Red Teaming Loop
Check Point argues AI security requires continuous red teaming rather than one-time validation before deployment.
more → Check Point, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Email Agent Hijacking: The Hidden Threat That Breaks Post-Delivery Security
Check Point warns of Email Agent Hijacking, where embedded instructions manipulate AI systems that process inbound email.
more → Check Point, Monday, July 13th, 2026
AI Security Threats In 2026: Annual Insights From Check Point Research
Check Point's 2026 AI Security Report finds AI has crossed from attacker assistant to attack operator.
more → Check Point, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Redefining the CISO Contract: From Securing the Business to Securely Doing Business
Check Point argues CISOs must shift from blocking AI adoption to securely enabling it or risk falling behind.
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Check Point, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
A New Ransomware Leader Emerges as June 2026 Attack Volumes Climb Worldwide
Check Point's June 2026 threat report shows attacks rising and The Gentlemen displacing Qilin as top ransomware group.
more → Check Point, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Cavern Manticore: Exposing Iran-Linked Modular C2 Framework
Check Point Research details Cavern Manticore, an Iran-linked APT's modular .NET command-and-control framework.
more → Check Point, Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Under Pressure: Insights From the 2026 Exposure Gap Report
Check Point's 2026 Exposure Gap Report finds critical vulnerabilities doubled but under 8% are truly urgent.
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Check Point, Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
Check Point and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Securing Europe's Digital Future
Check Point details how its security tools protect workloads on the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
When AI Invents the Attack: Browser-Native Ransomware
Check Point Research finds an AI model independently generated working browser-native ransomware code.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
Shadow AI Is Not a Tool Problem. It's a Timing Problem.
Check Point argues shadow AI spreads from a timing gap between policy and adoption, not employee misconduct.
more → Check Point, Friday, June 26th, 2026
90% of the World's Businesses Are SMEs and MSMEs and AI Is Reshaping Both Their Future and Their Risk
Check Point warns that SMEs and MSMEs are adopting AI faster than they can govern it, creating outsized cyber risk.
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Check Point, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
ClickFix: The Attack That Turns Users Into Their Own Attackers
Check Point introduced a behavior-based ClickFix detection engine to stop an attack that tricks users into running malicious commands.
more → Check Point, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Prevention Before the Inbox: Reading the Microsoft Defender Benchmark Report in Context
Check Point rebuts Microsoft's Defender email benchmark, arguing it ignores pre-delivery threat prevention.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
AI Has Moved From Assistance to Action. Is Your Security Model Ready?
Check Point says agentic AI now takes autonomous action, and most organizations lack the architecture to govern it.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
From Prompt Testing to AI Red Teaming at Enterprise Scale
Check Point argues enterprise AI security must move from manual prompt testing to scaled, system-aware AI red teaming.
more → Check Point, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
The Operational Reality of Zero Trust - And How You Can Change It
Check Point examines why Zero Trust often breaks down in daily operations and how to make it practical.
more → Check Point, Thursday, June 18th, 2026
What Successful Exposure Management Deployments Had in Common in 2026
Check Point outlines the shared traits of organizations that successfully deployed exposure management in 2026.
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Check Point, Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
AI Red Teaming Makes the Unknowns Known
Check Point's cloud-based AI Red Teaming simulates adversarial attacks on AI systems to expose vulnerabilities.
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