Posts Tagged ‘check point’
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News follows a thread that has been building across 2026: attackers are no longer trying to bypass the perimeter; they are subverting the infrastructure that maintains it. Russia’s Sandworm group deployed an updated Cyclops Blink botnet variant through Cisco’s firewall management console, turning the administrative plane into an entry point.…
Read MoreCheck Point VPN Certificate Vulnerability: Patch Now
Check Point disclosed a Check Point VPN certificate vulnerability pair, CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, both CVSS 9.8, on September 9, and the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre has since warned that large-scale exploitation is likely imminent, even though Check Point itself has not yet observed attacks in the wild. Both flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution…
Read MoreCheck Point SmartConsole CVE-2026-16232: Admin Bypass
Check Point SmartConsole CVE-2026-16232 is now on CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list: an unauthenticated attacker can forge a login token and get full administrator access to the console that manages an organization’s entire firewall fleet. Check Point patched it on July 22 and confirmed a handful of customers were already targeted. The federal remediation deadline…
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