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When people hear about hackers “asking an AI chatbot” to help them take over Instagram accounts, the instinctive reaction is to file it under prompt injection, jailbreaks, or “the model got tricked.”  That may be the wrong lesson.  According to reporting from 404 Media, hackers claimed they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to gain access to high-profile Instagram accounts by asking it to change the email address associated with the target account. The reported incidents coincided with several high-profile account takeovers, including accounts linked to the Obama White House, Sephora, and the Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force.    The post The Meta AI Account Recovery Incident Wasn’t Just a Chatbot Problem appeared first on Check Point Blog.

As the U.S. approaches the 2026 elections in November, the greatest threat to voting integrity will likely not be from hackers targeting voting machines or altering ballots, but from a growing war over reality itself.   Voter influence operations are increasingly focused on manipulating the information environment surrounding voters, flooding social media and search results with misleading narratives and fake content, and impersonated news sources designed to erode trust in what people see and hear online. Sophisticated operators have already cloned major media brands like Reuters, The Washington Post, and Fox News using look-alike domains that can fool even attentive readers at a glance. In this new era of AI-powered disinformation, the The post The 2026 U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, But it’s Not at the Ballot Box appeared first on Check Point Blog.

On May 22, 2026, Dutch financial-crime investigators walked into data centers in Dronten and Schiphol-Rijk and seized approximately 800 servers. The target was WorkTitans B.V., a hosting provider that, on the surface, looked like any other internet infrastructure company. What investigators uncovered, however, was something far more significant: a ghost operation built on sanctioned infrastructure, quietly serving as the backbone for some of Iran’s most active cyber espionage campaigns. The story starts a year earlier. In May 2025, the European Union sanctioned Stark Industries, an internet service provider linked to Russian information-warfare operations. Rather than shutting down, the people behind The post The Server Seizure That Affects Also Iran’s Cyber Operations appeared first on Check Point Blog.

At GTC Taipei during COMPUTEX 2026, NVIDIA is highlighting the growing adoption of its NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX architecture and introducing new NVIDIA DOCA-powered innovations designed to secure the next generation of enterprise AI infrastructure. As organizations continue scaling AI factories, private LLM environments, distributed inference systems, and increasingly autonomous AI operations, enterprise infrastructure requirements are rapidly evolving. Modern AI environments combine high-performance compute, distributed storage systems, inference pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, APIs, GPU server farms, and sensitive enterprise data operating continuously at enormous scale. At the same time, AI-driven environments are introducing increasingly dynamic machine-to-machine interactions across infrastructure, applications, and The post Check Point Lays the Groundwork for the Future of AI Factory Security with NVIDIA appeared first on Check Point Blog.

Attackers are now agentic. AI agents run reconnaissance, test exploits, and weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed – collapsing the mean time from CVE disclosure to confirmed exploitation from 2.3 years in 2018 to roughly 10 hours in 2026, with 72.7% of exploited CVEs in 2026 hitting as zero days, up from 16.1% in 2018.   Every year, the major breach reports tell the same story. Misconfigurations. Unpatched systems. Identity sprawl. Flat networks. The root causes barely change, and yet organizations continue to get breached, not because they lack visibility into these problems, but because closing them at scale is genuinely hard. Too many The post The Autonomous Security Platform Built for Attacker Speed appeared first on Check Point Blog.

At Check Point we don’t wait for threats to evolve; we evolve ahead of them. This is why we’ve been running our Frontier AI Models Readiness Program: a proactive, structured initiative designed to ensure that our products remain resilient as AI models grow increasingly capable of understanding complex software systems and assisting adversaries in attacking them. As part of this program, we conducted large-scale AI-driven code scanning across our products, performed extensive security reviews, hardened components where needed, refined our time-to-patch procedures, and accelerated our protection development processes to meet the pace of emerging AI-driven threats. Today’s Jumbo Security Release The post Check Point Frontier AI Models Readiness Program – Security Update appeared first on Check Point Blog.

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 The post 2026 Cloud Security Report: Why Traditional Network, Cloud, and Security Architecture Are Lagging Behind the AI Transformation appeared first on Check Point Blog.

Between late December 2025 and mid-February 2026, Gambit found that a single operator compromised nine Mexican government agencies, reaching tax records, civil registry data, patient files, and electoral infrastructure across a two-month campaign.   What made it remarkable was not the scope but the method: the attacker ran the entire operation with commercial AI handling the exploitation work, and researchers only discovered what had happened after recovering materials from attacker-controlled servers. AI was not a productivity tool running in the background. It was the operational core of the attack.  Check Point Research’s March-April 2026 Threat Landscape Digest documents this breach alongside The post AI Attacks Are No Longer Experimental: Key Findings from the March-April 2026 AI Threat Landscape appeared first on Check Point Blog.

Generative AI chatbots are quickly becoming the new front door to your business. They answer customer questions, support employees, guide buyers, and increasingly connect to internal documents, APIs, knowledge bases, and business workflows. That convenience creates a new risk for you, chatbot may now speak on behalf of your brand, access sensitive information, or influence customer decisions. Some of the Chatbot incidents show how quickly this can go wrong A car dealership chatbot was manipulated into a $1 car offer Air Canada faced liability after its chatbot gave misleading refund guidance Sears Home Services had millions of records of customers The post Protect GenAI Chatbots with Check Point WAF appeared first on Check Point Blog.

Networks used to be simple. A perimeter. A data center. A set of rules a single engineer could hold in their head. That world is long gone. Every wave of enterprise transformation – cloud migration, M&A, hybrid multi-cloud, IoT, remote work – added another layer of complexity. Each with its own topology, traffic patterns, and security assumptions. The complexity grew exponentially. And security followed, manually – more policies to author, more configurations to validate, more vendors to manage. The part that doesn’t show up in vendor presentations is that modern network security runs on institutional know-how. It lives in the The post The Network Security Problem No One Could Solve – Until Now. appeared first on Check Point Blog.