VPN security risks: The blind spots attackers exploit

The report explains that CVE-2026-50751 — a Check Point VPN certificate validation flaw — was exploited in the wild (observed May 7) by a Qilin ransomware affiliate to create trusted VPN sessions without valid credentials, enabling internal reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and ransomware staging; it also references other large remote-access incidents (SonicWall backup leaks, Fortinet exploits) to illustrate how VPN trust is abused and recommends replacing implicit network trust with continuous, policy-driven zero-trust controls.