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Introduction Check Point Research (CPR) continuously tracks threats, following the clues that lead to major players and incidents in the threat landscape. Whether it’s high-end financially-motivated campaigns or state-sponsored activity, our focus is to figure out what the threat is, report our findings to the relevant parties, and make sure Check Point customers stay protected. Some of our work...

Security teams have been talking about alert fatigue for years. And yet, for many SOCs, the problem isn’t getting better. It’s getting worse.As environments expand across cloud, SaaS, identity, and legacy systems, analysts are flooded with signals that all demand attention but rarely arrive with enough context to act quickly. Staffing shortages only amplify the issue. The result is...

Graduates of DSIT and Innovate UK's CyberASAP scheme to commercialise cutting-edge cyber research projects have raised nearly £50m in the past decade. - Read more

Ein Hacker hat sich Zugriff auf Mitarbeiterdaten von RTL verschafft.nitpicker – shutterstock.com Die RTL Group wurde offenbar Opfer einer Cyberattacke. Wie Cybernews berichtet, brüstet sich ein Cyberkrimineller namens LuneBF mit gestohlenen Daten von mehr als 27.000 Mitarbeitern der Mediengruppe. In seinem Darknet-Post behauptet der Angreifer, sich Zugriff auf die Intranet-Website der RTL Group verschafft zu...

For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 23rd February, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES France’s Ministry of Economy has disclosed a data breach resulted from an unauthorized access to the national bank account registry FICOBA, impacting information tied to 1.2 million accounts. Exposed data includes names, addresses, account identifiers and, in some...

By:  Josh Varden, Cofense Phishing Defense CenterGiven cryptocurrency’s rise in popularity, it has slowly worked its way into the mainstream economy. Coins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Sol, and other digital currencies are commonly used in place of traditional currencies to complete transactions. To help manage transactions, an individual will need brokerage apps and services to ensure a safe, smooth,...

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Elastic Cloud now supports AWS Graviton4-powered ARM hardware profiles. CPU Optimized ARM delivers up to 15% better price-performance, while Storage Optimized ARM delivers up to 40% better price-performance. - Read more

In February 2026, the automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach attributed to the threat actor ShinyHunters. Following an attempted extortion, the data was published publicly and contained more than 12M email addresses across multiple files including user account ID mappings, finance pre-qualification application data and dealer account and subscription information. Impacted data also included names,...

A financially motivated threat actor exploited various commercial generative AI services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices across more than 55 countries between January 11 and February 18, 2026. The campaign marks a defining demonstration of how AI is lowering the technical entry barrier to offensive cyber operations, enabling a low- to medium-skilled individual or small group to execute...