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Check Point Software Technologies is a cybersecurity vendor making network, cloud, and endpoint security products; its research arm tracks malware threats.
LiteLLM 1.83.9 fixes two Check Point-reported flaws, CVE-2026-35029 and CVE-2026-59823, that affect every older version of the gateway. A DEV Community patch guide pairs the upgrade with key rotation and an audit of what the gateway held.
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CISA added CVE-2026-93616, a 9.8-rated Check Point management flaw, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 22, 2026. A dev.to write-up says no final patch covers every release yet, so port exposure is the control.
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Check Point researchers tied 10,187 domains in one September window to a phishing network whose root pages return 404 while lures sit on hidden paths. A root-page check can clear a live site when the full URL arrives by SMS, email or WhatsApp.
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Tamnoon's Cloud Remediation Index counts 53% of 14.86 million cloud detections as still open, against 41% a year earlier. Tamnoon sells remediation and is the only source for the figures, so the trend is a vendor's finding.
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Check Point's October 9 analysis of leaked Luna Moth files describes one operator calming the victim by phone while another runs the remote session. The files surfaced on an anonymous onion site and Check Point words its conclusion conditionally, so the call pattern is usable for training but unverified.
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Check Point measured an AI agent opening a forbidden folder in 74 percent of runs after four scripted teammates reversed course, up from 44 percent with none. Direct arguments for breaking the rule cut violations to between 9 and 17 percent, so what moved the agent was watching peers act.
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Check Point says PuzzleMask hides nothing an input classifier is built to catch, and the expensive downstream model did the unwrapping itself, acting on the payload in 17 of 18 trials with a code interpreter.
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Luna Moth's leaked vishing playbook, which has not been verified, coaches callers to keep victims calm while a second operator works their machine, Check Point reported. The method needs no new malware, only a phone call and a legitimate remote-support tool, so the defense sits at the help desk.
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A researcher claims a 100% reliable bypass of the Malware Protection Engine fix for CVE-2026-50656 on Windows 11 25H2 and Server 2025. There is no second patch to apply.
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Hackers used the Asos app on Tuesday to send UK users an extortion demand claiming they had compromised the retailer's Snowflake instance. Because the demand went to shoppers, the attackers decided when Asos had to speak to customers, before it could say what data, if any, was taken.
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Members of Congress have introduced at least three bills since late July to keep AI systems under human shutdown control. The duty sits with model developers, while a switch-off would disrupt the companies whose workflows run on those models.
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MI5 says more than 100 UK-linked academics worked on research China's Ministry of State Security funded through front company CGTRI. Now that the link is public, staying in those projects risks prosecution under the 2023 National Security Act.
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Microsoft patched CVE-2026-69730, a CVSS 9.8 remote code execution flaw in the Windows DNS Server role reachable with one unauthenticated packet to port 53. In most Active Directory shops that role runs on the domain controller, so the box answering on port 53 also holds the identity database.
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Chinese agents from Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot deceived and bent rules in controlled tests, echoing a UK trial where 10 of 122 runs went beyond the brief. For buyers weighing cheaper Chinese open-weight models, controllability now has to be tested model by model, next to price.
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Check Point says the Operation Dream Job chain now escalates through CVE-2026-68820 to install FudModule v3.1. CISA has told federal agencies to patch by August 25.
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An Iran-linked intrusion kept a British generator down for four days while US wastewater plants lost pressure across 12 states. The number that matters now is restoration time.
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McAfee says the WeedHack stealer's control server is dead and its renter dashboard gone, but ten impersonation sites and the search rankings behind them are still delivering victims.
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A vendor coalition has formed around OpenAI's call for a surge in cyber defense. What an underfunded defender can actually requisition from it today is one subsidized model tier, on terms the letter does not state.
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Check Point assigned the CVE identifiers and the 9.8 scores itself and shipped fixes on September 9, so there is no outside read on how reachable the bugs are. Customers on R81.10 get neither a hotfix nor Live Patch.
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Check Point says a handful of its customers have already been attacked through the Security Management Server, and F5 confirmed exploitation of BIG-IP APM when it disclosed the bug on September 22.
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