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Check Point Blocks Large-Scale Debt-Relief Email Phishing Campaign Targeting More Than 9,000 Organizations

calendar_today August 25, 2026 person lizwu@checkpoint.com domain checkpoint

Check Point has identified and blocked a large-scale email phishing campaign using fraudulent financial hardship and debt-relief offers to manipulate recipients into calling attacker-controlled phone numbers. Over the past 14 days, Check Point observed approximately 24,700 emails associated with the campaign targeting users across more than 9,000 organizations, demonstrating both the scale of the operation and the continued evolution of phishing beyond malicious links and attachments. The campaign underscores a growing enterprise risk: phishing no longer needs an obvious malicious link, attach

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