Check Point Software has released emergency hotfixes to address a high-severity flaw that hackers have been exploiting to gain root privileges and establish persistence on vulnerable devices since late October. [...]
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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Check Point and UnrealIRCd flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Check Point and UnrealIRCd vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-114713 (CVSS score of 8.6) is a high-severity command…
A firewall is intended to be a boundary attackers can’t cross. But firewalls face the web, making them just as vulnerable to attack as other systems, as evidenced by the emergency hotfixes released by Check Point Software for several of its products. The patches address a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-123039, that gives attackers root privilege access and the ability to send commands to the Gaia O…
SCKit abuses ScreenConnect to deploy unauthorized remote access and target technicians. Explore the attack chain, mitigations, and Microsoft Defender XDR hunting. The post SCKit abuses ScreenConnect to deploy remote access and target technician sessions appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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