Covers: MalwareDetection & ResponseThreat Actors & Nation-StateData BreachesVulnerabilities & Patching
Key findings Introduction We have now confirmed that, in late October 2026, approximately one week after a security fix became available, activity originating from 130.94.19[.]204 targeted Israeli organizations through vulnerable Mobile Access portals on...
Key Points Introduction Over the past year, Check Point Research investigated a series of intrusion campaigns targeting several dozens of high-profile organizations across Latin America, Asia, and Europe. These campaigns initially appeared to be...
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 9th November, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Queens Public Library, a New York City public library system serving approximately 2.3 million residents,...
Key Points Introduction ARTEX is a Chinese open-source, AI-powered penetration testing platform designed to help security teams assess systems they own or are authorized to test. It uses large language models (LLMs) to coordinate multiple AI agents that...
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction Earlier this year, Check Point Research disclosed a security flaw in ChatGPT’s code-execution runtime that allowed sensitive conversation data to be silently exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled...
Key Points Free the Model, Sell the Gateway: Prompt Adware hidden in Jailbreak Bundles Check Point Research found a misconfigured webserver of a threat actor operating the Cobalt Strike framework. Besides an open Cobalt Strike server, whose logs showed the...
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 2nd November, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Binance, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered a cyberattack resulting in the theft of...
Key findings On October 26, Cohere reported a puzzling incident involving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model from Alibaba. The task was straightforward: write a detection rule for suspicious curl downloads followed by bash execution. Instead, the...
Key Points Introduction Over the past two months, we have been tracking a campaign that abuses the popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to spread a custom malware chain we call Yoba. The attackers use fake GitHub projects that pretend to be AI...
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 26th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Japanese cloud hosting provider Onamae Desktop Cloud has confirmed a cyberattack in which intruders...
Key Points Introduction Infostealers commonly target browser passwords, session cookies, and cryptocurrency wallets. This malware combines those established capabilities with dedicated collection routines for AI applications and development tools. Its...
Key Findings Introduction Antidetect browsers conceal their users’ digital identities, enabling a single operator or small team to simultaneously run thousands of isolated accounts across multiple platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube,...
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 19th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES CenterPoint Energy, a US utility company serving Texas and several other states, has disclosed a data...
TL;DR; Our security assessment of LiteLLM (v1.77.7), a widely used open-source LLM gateway, uncovered multiple high-impact vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2026-35029, CVE-2026-59823) which have been resolved as of LiteLLM version 1.83.9. The most...
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 12th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Denmark’s government has disclosed a breach involving its Central Register of Persons after unauthorized...