Check Point releases emergency fix for VPN zero-day

Patches actively exploited flaw

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Check Point releases emergency fix for zero-day in its VPN products
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Check Point releases emergency fix for zero-day in its VPN products

Check Point has released emergency hotfixes to address a critical vulnerability in its VPN products that attackers were actively exploiting.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-24919, is a zero-day flaw that allows attackers to steal sensitive information from internet-connected Check Point Network Security Gateways. These gateway...

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