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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.

4 min read
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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 walk in without a password and rewrite the rules of an entire network. Ten organisations have already been hit.

4 min read
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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.

3 min read
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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 waltz 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 is not to avoid AI. It is 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.

3 min read
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.

2 min read
Vulnerabilities

Check Point Issues Emergency Patches After IKEv1 Auth Bypass Draws Qilin Affiliate

Two certificate-validation flaws in Check Point's VPN stack — one already exploited, one caught during the ensuing review — have prompted hotfixes across nine Quantum software versions.

2 min read
Vulnerabilities

Check Point Confirms Active Exploitation of IKEv1 Cert-Bypass Flaw in Remote Access VPN

CVE-2026-50751 lets unauthenticated attackers slip past authentication on gateways still running the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange. Patch is out. Exploitation is not theoretical.

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