Check Point has rushed out a fix for a critical flaw in its Remote Access VPN, Mobile Access, and Spark firewall products that attackers have been exploiting since May 7. The bug (CVE-2026-50751, rated 9.3) is a logic error in how the software checks certificates, letting an unauthenticated attacker log into the VPN with no password, but only on gateways still using the old IKEv1 key-exchange protocol. So far a few dozen organizations have been hit, and at least one intrusion was tied to an affiliate of the Qilin ransomware gang, which used the access to steal data with Rclone before deploying ransomware. A second, unexploited flaw was also patched.
The Gentlemen, the second most prolific public ransomware operation of 2026 with over 320 listed victims, has had its own internal database leaked. Check Point Research and others obtained the data after a breach of the group's hosting provider 4VPS exposed their Rocket backend. The leak unmasks roughly 9 named operators centered on an administrator known as zeta88 (aka hastalamuerte), who built the RaaS panel in three days using DeepSeek and Qwen AI coding assistants, runs payouts, and joins encryption events personally. Internal chats also confirm chain-victimization: in April the group hit a UK software consultancy and then weaponized stolen client credentials to compromise one of the consultancy's customers in Turkey.
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