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Check Point Finds Autonomous AI Agents Carrying Out Cyberattacks
Check Point Research says cybercriminals are using ARTEX, an AI-powered penetration testing platform, to automate vulnerability discovery and exploitation with little…

Storm Ransomware Claims 50+ Victims in Six Weeks, but Its AI Label Is Unproven
A new ransomware operation called Storm has claimed more than 50 victims in roughly six weeks, while marketing itself as the "first AI powered, quantum resistant…

Check Point Replays Qwen Incident 64 Times, Finds Confused Model, Not Backdoor
Check Point's AI security team says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next most likely behaved erratically rather than carrying out a hidden plan when it tried a test upload to a…

Check Point Launches Maestro MHO 200 With 400GbE Ports for AI Traffic
Check Point has introduced the Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator (MHO) 200, which it calls its most powerful Maestro orchestrator yet. According to the company, the device…

Yoba Malware Hides Behind Fake ChatGPT and Claude Apps on GitHub
Check Point Research (CPR) has uncovered Yoba, a malware campaign that uses fake GitHub projects posing as ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps. The attackers abuse…

Check Point Named in Three Gartner Reports on Exposure Management
Check Point says it appears in three new Gartner research publications covering autonomous remediation, exposure assessment and preemptive cybersecurity. According to…
Safety and ethicsCheck Point Cuts Vulnerability Research From Hours to Minutes With OpenAI Daybreak
Check Point says its vulnerability research workflow now takes minutes instead of hours after adopting OpenAI Daybreak. According to Jonathan Zanger, the company's CTO…

Check Point Launches Firewall-as-a-Subscription to Ease Rising Borrowing Costs
Check Point has introduced Firewall-as-a-Subscription, a model that replaces a large upfront hardware purchase with one predictable monthly or annual payment. According…

Check Point CISO: PHP2Shell Shows Log4Shell Lessons Apply at AI Speed
Check Point's CISO says the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities recall Log4Shell, but with a faster clock: AI can help attackers analyze code and build exploits sooner. In a…

Check Point lets firms write their own AI guardrails in plain language
Check Point has introduced custom guardrails as part of Check Point AI Security, letting companies write their own AI rules in plain language, test them and enforce them…

Fake airline support numbers spread via trusted sites and AI answers
Check Point Exposure Management researchers say scammers are mass-producing fake customer support PDFs that impersonate more than 20 travel brands and getting the phone…

Check Point Joins NVIDIA OpenShell Architecture to Steer Off-Task AI Agents
Check Point says it is part of the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture for safe AI agents, introduced at GTC Berlin. The company adds a check on whether each agent…

Check Point: Antidetect Browsers and AI Help Scale Online Fraud
Check Point Research says antidetect browsers are being used in criminal ecosystems for account takeover and payment fraud, and that AI and automation can further…

Check Point and AWS sign new multi-year deal to push AI security
Check Point and Amazon Web Services have signed a new multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) that centers on securing AI initiatives built on AWS. According…

Check Point Adds Agent Security Layer to Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise
Check Point has integrated its AI Agent Security with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, adding risk assessment and real-time protection to the platform's agent control…

Check Point Adds Detector That Flags Dangerous AI Agent Actions Before They Run
Check Point has described Dangerous Deviation Detection, a detector in its Check Point AI Security product that checks each tool call an AI agent makes before the tool…

Check Point Finds Two High Risk Flaws in Popular LiteLLM AI Gateway
Check Point Research has discovered two high risk vulnerabilities in LiteLLM, the open source LLM gateway that organizations use to connect applications to AI providers…

Check Point Study: Peer Behavior Can Tip AI Agents Into Breaking Rules
Security firm Check Point reports that AI agents working in teams are more likely to violate an explicit rule after watching teammates change their minds, yet the agents…

Check Point: Weekly Cyber Attacks Per Organization Up 48% in September
Organizations faced an average of 2,803 cyber attacks per week in September 2026, up 16% from August and 48% from a year earlier, according to Check Point's monthly…

Check Point PromptGuardX Scans PDFs for Hidden AI Prompt Injections
Check Point has introduced PromptGuardX, a tool that inspects PDF files for hidden prompt-injection instructions before their content reaches an LLM, copilot or AI…
Safety and ethicsCheck Point and NVIDIA Pair Infrastructure Limits With Step-by-Step AI Agent Monitoring
Check Point says a beta integration with NVIDIA OpenShell combines an infrastructure-level boundary with semantic monitoring to keep autonomous AI agents on task.…