Organizations in Israel face approximately 2,000 cyberattacks per week, according to research presented by Nataly Kremer, Chief Product Officer at Check Point, during Cyber Week at Tel Aviv University on Thursday.
The telecommunications and transportation sectors in Israel are targeted by significantly more attacks than the global average, and AI developments are exposing new security vulnerabilities.
“We are leaping generations ahead in productivity and efficiency, but generations backward in security,” Kremer said.
She warned that “Vibe coding tools,” which use AI to allow a programmer to write code using natural language prompts, “quickly and intuitively, [creating] a massive productivity advantage. But alongside this acceleration, new layers of vulnerabilities and weaknesses are exposed within the development itself.”
Organizations adopting AI without proper security expose themselves to new threats
Within a single month, Check Point identified around 10 significant vulnerabilities across AI tools, including the popular development tool OpenAI Codex, according to Kremer, who explained that “when AI systems perform actions on behalf of users, they effectively become a new infrastructure layer.”
“Organizations that adopt AI without a dedicated security layer expose themselves to training data manipulation, hidden capability injection into models, and information leakage via autonomous agents. Today, protection is required for the models, the training data, the AI supply chain, and the interactions executed on our behalf,” Kremer added.
For Cyber Week, Check Point analyzed attack trends and found that Israeli telecommunications organizations are targeted by around 4,000 attacks per organization per week, compared to 2,703 globally.
Israeli transportation and logistics organizations experience over double the global rate, with 3,017 weekly attacks compared to 1,169 globally.