Black Hat USA 2026 gave Check Point Research four chances to show the room something it hadn’t seen before. Across two days, our researchers pulled apart a decade-old Windows driver, a malware format most tools can’t touch, the plumbing underneath today’s AI agent frameworks, and the sandbox meant to contain them, and found the same pattern waiting in each: attackers moving into the layers we trust by default. Here’s a look at what they presented. BTR Reforged: The Driver Nobody Had Looked At Jiří Vinopal opened the day with a talk that started from an uncomfortable premise. Somewhere inside Windows […]

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Attackers are increasingly abandoning fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s legitimate authentication infrastructure, allowing phishing campaigns to bypass many of the warning signs employees have been trained to recognize. Starting on June 25th through the second week of July, we identified more than 200 phishing emails targeting users across approximately 120 organizations, spanning a wide range of industries and countries worldwide. The messages impersonated Microsoft Teams task notifications from HR and directed recipients to a legitimate Microsoft sign-in page. Victims were then prompted to grant permissions to an attacker-controlled application, allowing the campaign to abuse Microsoft’s trusted […]

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Key Findings Trust is being manufactured at scale. A single threat actor built a cross-platform ecosystem: a WordPress phishing hub, GitHub and SourceForge projects, a YouTube channel, crypto forums, and even posts on legitimate news sites, all engineered to make a malicious “tool” look popular, vetted, and safe Reputation systems themselves are now a target. The actor seeds benign votes and “safe” community comments on VirusTotal samples that already carry low detection rates, nudging reputation-based defenses toward misclassifying clearly malicious files as harmless AI is woven into the lure. Fake “tutorial” videos pair real-looking desktop demos with AI-generated narrators and […]

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As AI rapidly reshapes industries, the role of the cloud has become even more critical. From automated customer experiences to intelligent cyber security and predictive analytics, AI transformations are increasingly being built on a cloud-first foundation. Over the past two years, AI has swiftly moved from an experimental state to an operational reality, with every leading organization embedding AI into the core of how they build, operate, and compete. However, security architectures have not kept pace with the AI transformation. Closing that gap requires more than incremental fixes. It demands a rethinking of how security is designed, deployed, and enforced […]

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Check Point has been honored Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Technology Innovation Leadership recognition in WAF and API security, positioning us as a Company to Action shaping the future of cybersecurity. This recognition reflects a major shift in how application security must operate today. Application Security Has Fundamentally Changed Applications are no longer just web apps they now run on APIs, microservices, and AI-driven services, rapidly expanding across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Each release introduces new components, increasing the attack surface. At the same time, accelerated DevSecOps cycles are making both web and AI applications harder to secure, while threats continue […]

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On World Quantum Day, much of the conversation celebrates breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and computing. But for cyber security leaders, quantum computing represents a fundamental disruption to the cryptographic foundations that secure our digital world. Q-Day is closer than you think What was once considered a distant, theoretical risk is rapidly becoming reality. Advances in quantum computing, including improved algorithms and reduced qubit requirements, are accelerating timelines. What the industry once viewed as a 2040s challenge is now approaching within years. In late 2025, Gartner elevated Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration to a board-level priority, urging action ahead of a 2030 […]

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Generative AI is transforming cyber defense. Technical expertise remains critical, but AI-driven threats demand more than individual skill – they require the collective intelligence of the organization’s SOC. To understand how businesses are adapting, Infinity Global Services analyzed training consumption trends from 2023 to 2025. The findings reveal a decisive shift from individual courses to team-based subscriptions, signaling a new approach to workforce development in the age of AI. The Data: A Shift in Mindset Infinity Global Services’ training data shows a clear change in procurement strategies. Individual course purchases have declined by 33%, while team-based subscription models have surged, […]

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