Check Point finds critical vulnerabilities doubled in 2026
Check Point Software Technologies has released its 2026 Exposure Gap Report, revealing that while critical vulnerability exposures more than doubled over the past year, fewer than one in twelve vulnerability alerts required immediate remediation after exploitability validation, highlighting the growing challenge of prioritising cyber risks amid AI-driven attacks.
According to the report, vulnerabilities accounted for 42.6% of all critical exposures in 2026, up from 18.7% a year earlier, making them the largest category of critical exposure. However, only 7.8% of vulnerability alerts were classified as critical or high priority after validation, suggesting that organisations continue to face significant alert fatigue despite increasing threat volumes.
The report notes that AI-assisted attack tools are enabling threat actors to scan exposed systems, credentials and known vulnerabilities at a scale and speed that manual security operations struggle to match. This has widened what Check Point describes as the “exposure gap”, the time between identifying...
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