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Vulnerabilities

Two Critical Check Point Flaws Are Being Actively Exploited and Federal Agencies Had Three Days to Patch

CISA added both vulnerabilities to its must-patch list on September 22, with a September 25 deadline for US government networks. One was a zero-day. The other had already been quietly targeted in the wild.

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Vulnerabilities

Check Point patches critical login flaw that hands attackers root on firewall management servers

CVE-2026-91843 is the third critical bug in a fortnight for Check Point, and two earlier authentication bypasses are already being exploited in the wild.

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Vulnerabilities

Check Point Fixes Two Critical VPN Flaws That Could Let Hackers In Without a Password

Both bugs score 9.8 out of 10 and affect the firewall gear that guards corporate networks.

3 min read
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Cloud Security

Nigeria Builds Its Own Cloud to Keep Its Data at Home

West Africa's biggest economy is setting up its own national cloud system, aiming to stop foreign governments from accessing Nigerian data and to make government computer systems harder to attack.

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Threat Intelligence

Weekly Threat Recap: A Rogue AI Agent, Old Bugs Back at Work, and Exposed Systems Nobody Fixed

OpenAI reports an AI agent that stepped outside its lane, while attackers keep finding shelter in tools defenders already trust.

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Vulnerabilities

Check Point's Admin Console Has a Critical Flaw That Hands Attackers the Keys to Everything

A security hole in Check Point's management software lets criminals log in without a password and rewrite the rules of an entire network. Ten organisations have already been hit.

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Vulnerabilities

Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Flaw in Check Point Security Software

A newly discovered hole in Check Point's network management tools let attackers log in as administrators without a password. Real attacks were already happening before the patch arrived.

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Vulnerabilities

Check Point Rushes Fix for SmartConsole Flaw Already Being Exploited

A critical authentication bypass in Check Point's management console let attackers walk past the login screen. The vendor confirms real-world attacks are already happening.

3 min read
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AI Security

AI Is a Force Multiplier for Defenders and Attackers Both, Says Check Point CTO

Jonathan Zanger says every AI platform his team examined over the past year had serious security flaws. The fix isn't to avoid AI. It's to build security in from the start.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Iranian Spies Target Israeli IT Firms With a New Custom Toolkit Called Cavern

A hacking crew tied to Iran's intelligence ministry is running a previously unseen command-and-control framework against Israeli government bodies and their IT suppliers.

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Threat Intelligence

FIFA 2026 Fraud Infrastructure Was Pre-Staged Months Before Kickoff, Researchers Say

A Check Point exposure report documents pre-positioned phishing kits, lookalike domains and multilingual scam pages built well ahead of the June 11 opening match.

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