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.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
From Stars to Upvotes: The Fake Reputation Economy Behind Crypto Clipboard Hijackers
Check Point Research exposes a crypto clipboard hijacker promoted through a cross-platform fake reputation economy.
more → Check Point, Monday, June 15th, 2026
Energy, Healthcare, and Finance: Why Midwest Industries Are Facing Surging Cyber Attacks
Check Point data shows Central US energy, healthcare, and finance sectors facing sharply rising weekly cyber attacks.
more → Check Point, Monday, June 15th, 2026
The NCSC Patch Wave Is Coming. Do You Know Where Your Risk Lives?
Check Point warns of an AI-driven wave of vulnerability disclosures the NCSC says organizations must prepare for.
more → Check Point, Friday, June 12th, 2026
Check Point Engage Public Sector 2026: AI Is the New Battlefield
Check Point recaps its public-sector summit on how AI is reshaping cyber attack and defense.
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Help Net Security, Thursday, June 11th, 2026
Check Point Expands MSP Platform With AI Governance and Unified Security Bundles
Check Point expands its MSP platform with AI security governance, multi-tenant management, and unified security bundles.
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Check Point, Thursday, June 4th, 2026
Fraud, Ransomware, and Fake Apps Are Already Targeting FIFA 2026
Threat actors are pre-positioning fraud, ransomware, and fake apps targeting FIFA 2026's financial, travel, and gambling sectors.
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Check Point, Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
The AI Defense Plane: Securing the New Enterprise Execution Layer
Check Point proposes an AI Defense Plane architecture to unify security controls across enterprise AI usage, applications, and agents.
more → Check Point, Monday, June 1st, 2026
Check Point Lays the Groundwork for the Future of AI Factory Security with NVIDIA
Check Point and NVIDIA collaborate to secure AI infrastructure using BlueField-4 and DOCA technologies.
more → Check Point Research, Monday, June 1st, 2026
1st June - Threat Intelligence Report
Weekly threat intelligence bulletin covering major data breaches, AI-driven attacks, and critical vulnerabilities across organizations.
more → Check Point, Friday, May 15th, 2026
The Case for a Vulnerability Operations Center
Vulnerability remediation has become an execution problem. Security teams are generating more findings than ever, but too often those findings do not translate into timely risk reduction. The gap between newly introduced exposure and effective remediation continues to widen.
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Check Point, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Cyber Threats Spike in April 2026 as Ransomware Expands and Attack Volumes Climb After Short-Lived Moderation
In April 2026, global cyber-attack activity rebounded sharply following the brief moderation observed in March. Organizations experienced an average of 2,201 weekly cyber-attacks, representing a 10% increase month over month and an 8% increase year over year.
more → Check Point, Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Check Point Software Earns 2026 Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition For Prevention - First WAF And API Security
Analyst Firm Frost & Sullivan Validates Check Point's AI‑Driven Real‑Time Protection across Web, API, and AI Applications
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Check Point, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Check Point To Integrate AI Defense Plane With Google Cloud To Help Secure AI Agents With Integrated Discovery, Governance, And Runtime Protection
Check Point to Integrate AI Defense Plane with Google Cloud to Help Secure AI Agents with Integrated Discovery, Governance, and Runtime Protection
more → Check Point, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Check Point Software Ranks #1 In Miercom's 2026 Hybrid Mesh Network Security
Miercom's 2026 Hybrid Mesh Network Security Assessment Shows Check Point achieving the highest overall security effectiveness score of 99.8%, highlighting its industry-leading threat prevention
more → ITWire, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Gigaom Names Check Point Software A Leader And Fast Mover In Application And API Security
Check Point WAF recognised for industry‑leading detection and a unified platform that protects modern web and AI‑driven applications with simplicity and speed
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Check Point, Monday, April 6th, 2026
Why Manufacturing Cyber Security Is Becoming More Complex As Cyber Attacks Accelerate
The global manufacturing sector entered 2025 facing one of the most aggressive cyber threat environments in its history. Digital transformation, smart factories, and interconnected supply chains have expanded operational efficiency to places 50 years ago we wouldn't have thought possible.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Claude Mythos Wake-Up Call: What AI Vulnerability Discovery Means For Cyber Defense
Recently, the industry learned that Anthropic was developing Claude Capybara, also called Mythos, a powerful new AI model with substantially improved capabilities in vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and multi-step attack reasoning.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
When Trusted Software Updates Become The Attack Vector: Inside Operation TrueChaos And A New Zero Day Vulnerability In A Popular Collaboration Tool
A zero day flaw in a trusted supply chain software turned a legitimate government collaboration tool into a malware delivery platform.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Uncovering ROI Of A Hybrid Mesh Architecture - 2026 Idc Business Value Study
To move fast without losing control, enterprises need a Hybrid Mesh Network Security architecture. But for CISOs and CIOs, the challenge is clear: How do you demonstrate measurable business value from adopting hybrid mesh security?
more → Check Point, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
The Whitelist Illusion - When Your Trusted List Becomes A Billion Dollar Attack Path
Your whitelist is not a wall. For nation-state attackers, it's a map, showing exactly who to compromise to get to your assets.
more → Check Point, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
How Threat Intelligence And Multi-Source Data Drive Smarter Vulnerability Prioritization
For years, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores have been the default metric for vulnerability severity. But severity does not equal risk. A CVSS 9.8 vulnerability that is never exploited is less dangerous than a CVSS 6.5 actively used in ransomware campaigns. Yet many organizations still chase the highest scores first, wasting time and leaving real threats exposed.
more → Check Point, Thursday, February 26th, 2026
National Cyber Resilience In The AI Era
A Practical Q&A Guide for Leaders Navigating NIST, Zero Trust, and AI Governance
more → Check Point, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Two Types Of Threat Intelligence That Make Security Work
The problem isn't that we lack threat intelligence. It's that we lack the right kind of intelligence, intelligence that connects what's happening inside your environment with what attackers are planning outside it.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Check Point Named Leader in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Network Security For 3 Years in a Row - Protects 22 Cloud Vendors
In today's multi-cloud world, businesses deploy workloads across dozens of public and private clouds, each with their own network topology, security controls, and operational quirks.
more → Check Point, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Using AI For Covert Command-And-Control Channels
heck Point Research has identified a potential new abuse pattern: AI assistants with web-browsing Ccapabilities could, in the future, be repurposed as covert command-and-control (C2) relays.
more → Check Point, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Check Point Sets Out Four-Pillar Blueprint For Securing The AI-Driven Enterprise
The ongoing AI arms race has become a central theme in cybersecurity, with both defenders and attackers rapidly adopting the technology and looking to wield it to their advantage. In many ways, it's an escalation of the typical cat-and-mouse nature of cybersecurity, though greatly accelerated and with higher stakes.
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Check Point, Friday, February 6th, 2026
What's New In GravityZone February 2026 (V 6.70)
Bitdefender rolled out an extensive list of updates and new functionality in Bitdefender GravityZone, a unified cybersecurity platform that provides prevention, protection, detection, and response capabilities for organizations of all sizes.
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Check Point, Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Helpful Skills Or Hidden Payloads? Bitdefender Labs Dives Deep Into The OpenClaw Malicious Skill Trap
With hundreds of malicious OpenClaw skills blending in among legitimate ones, manually reviewing every script or command isn't realistic - especially when skills are designed to look helpful and familiar.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Amaranth-Dragon: Targeted Cyber Espionage Campaigns Across Southeast Asia
Throughout 2025, Check Point Research observed a series of cyber espionage campaigns quietly unfolding across Southeast Asia. Unlike opportunistic cyber crime, these operations were narrowly focused on government institutions and law enforcement agencies, suggesting a clear objective: long-term geopolitical intelligence collection.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
The Three Most Disruptive Cyber Trends Impacting The Financial Industry Today
The financial sector experienced an unprecedented rise in cyber incidents in 2025, with attacks more than doubling from 864 in 2024 to 1,858 in 2025. This acceleration reflects a dramatic shift in threat actor behavior, ranging from ideologically-motivated disruptions to commercialized cyber crime as a service. Below is a concise snapshot of the three dominant trends before we unpack them in detail.
more → Check Point, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
The Evolution Of Ransomware - Key Moments
The year was 1989. There was no cloud, no cryptocurrency, and no global cybercrime economy-just a malicious program quietly waiting to lock its victim out of their own system.
more → Check Point, Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Check Point Software's 2026 Cyber Security Report Shows Global Attacks Reach Record Levels As AI Accelerates The Threat Landscape
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions released its Cyber Security Report 2026, the company's 14th annual analysis of global cyber attack trends.
more → Check Point, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
Attackers Continue To Target Trusted Collaboration Platforms: 12,000+ Emails Target Teams Users
This report describes a phishing campaign in which attackers abuse Microsoft Teams functionality to distribute phishing content that appears to originate from legitimate Microsoft services. The attack leverages guest invitations and phishing-themed team names to impersonate billing and subscription notifications, encouraging victims to contact a fraudulent support phone number.
more → Check Point, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Why Exposure Management Is Becoming A Security Imperative
Of course, organizations see risk. It's just that they struggle to turn insight into timely, safe action. That gap is why exposure management has emerged, and also why it is now becoming a foundational security discipline.
more → Check Point, Monday, January 19th, 2026
Voidlink Signals The Start Of A New Era In AI-Generated Malware
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organizations operate, innovate, and compete. But as AI becomes more powerful, it is also changing how cyber threats are created.
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