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NCSC Warns Shadow AI Creates New Security Risks
UK NCSC warns that unapproved AI tools used by 71% of UK employees expose corporate data and create hard-to-detect organizational security risks.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre warned on 7 September that shadow AI, unapproved AI tools used outside organizational controls, creates visibility gaps and raises risks of data breaches, intellectual property loss, and regulatory non-compliance. It cited Microsoft research finding 71% of UK employees had used AI tools not approved by their employer. NCSC also warned AI agents can carry critical vulnerabilities, allowing attackers who exploit one to inherit the agent's data access, services and privileges, and that attackers are highly likely to abuse agents with looser guardrails. The agency recommended reducing rather than eliminating shadow AI through positive security culture and clear guardrails.
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Dutch NCSC Warns: Critical Check Point VPN Flaws Put Networks at Risk
Dutch NCSC warns two CVSS 9.8 Check Point VPN flaws enable unauthenticated RCE; patch and restrict access before exploitation begins.
The Dutch NCSC warns that CVE-2026-85102, a security-check bypass in the VPN negotiation process, and CVE-2026-85103, a heap overflow in the certificate ASN.1 decoder, both carry a CVSS score of 9.8 and allow unauthenticated remote code execution on Check Point Security Gateways and Security Management Servers. Check Point fixed the flaws on September 9 via advisories sk1000117 and sk1000118, covering R81.20, R82, R82.10, R81.10.x, R82.00.x plus end-of-support versions R80 through R81.10; R82.20 is unaffected. No public proof-of-concept exists, but the NCSC rates exploitation likelihood as high and recommends patching immediately via LivePatch Take 24 or Jumbo Hotfix and restricting VPN access to trusted IPs.
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