ALPC

October 'In Trend VM' Report: Exploited Windows ALPC and Check Point VPN Vulnerabilities

Positive Technologies has released its October edition of the 'In Trend VM' digest, highlighting two actively exploited vulnerabilities. The first is CVE-2026-85880, a local privilege escalation flaw in the Windows ALPC mechanism that was used as a zero-day in targeted attacks by multiple APT clusters. The second is CVE-2026-85102, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Check Point Security Gateway and Spark Firewall products that affects VPN negotiation. Both issues have been added to CISA's KEV catalog, with public proof-of-concept code already available for the Check Point flaw. The report details attack chains, affected versions, and recommended patches or workarounds.