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Wendi Whitmore to lead Palo Alto’s new cybersecurity consulting group Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks has announced it is establishing a new cybersecurity consulting group to help enterprises respond to emerging threats as they navigate an increase in costly, crippling cyberattacks. The newly expanded

4 years ago

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INTERPOL thanks Unit 42 for collaboration in Operation Delilah providing telemetry about BEC actors

INTERPOL and The Nigeria Police Force announced the arrest of a prominent business email compromise (BEC) actor who has been active since 2015. His apprehension marks the latest success for Operation Delilah –

3 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Android apps leaking sensitive data found on Google Play

Unit 42 finds Android apps with 6 million downloads on Google Play leaking data

Data leakage from mobile applications is a known problem in the industry. Leaked data violates users’ privacy and can be used for further attacks by cybercriminals, such as collecting a phone’s location

4 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Unit 42 warns of Thanos ransomware variant targeting state-run orgs in MENA

On July 6 and July 9, 2020, the Unit 42 team at Palo Alto Networks observed files associated with an attack on two state-run organisations in the Middle East and North Africa

4 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Unit 42 is tracking Nigerian cyber criminals involved in BEC activities under the name SilverTerrier.

Unit 42 finds Covid-themed business email compromise schemes are on the rise

According to the recently released annual report from the Internet Crime Complaint Centre, IC3, the FBI observed a record 23,775 Business Email Compromise, BEC, attacks in 2019. Significantly greater than all other

5 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Unit 42 warns of malicious Covid-themed domains hosted in the cloud

Unit 42 has released new research on malicious Covid-19 themed domains hosted in the cloud that are targeting users with phishing and malware. Unit 42 researchers analysed 1.2 million newly registered domain

5 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Unit 42 issues threat brief on how hackers are exploiting COVID-19

Ryan Olson, Vice President, Threat Intelligence, Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks talks about how cyber attackers are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic. When people ask me what Unit 42, does,

5 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

The Muhstik botnet has been alive since March 2018

Unit 42 discovers botnet that threatens routers using open source Tomato firmware

Researchers from Unit 42, the threat intelligence arm of Palo Alto Networks, have discovered a new variant of the Muhstik botnet that adds a scanner to attack Tomato routers for the first

5 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Poor cloud security practices are rampant.

Unit 42’s latest threat report finds 43% of cloud databases are not encrypted

Unit 42, the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team, has released the Spring 2020 edition of Cloud Threat Report, which aims to uncover where cloud vulnerabilities are surfacing in the threat landscape

5 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

New watering hole identified for credential harvesting.

Unit 42 finds Kuwaiti organisation’s webpage was exploited for malicious activities

During the analysis of the xHunt campaign activities, researchers from Unit 42, the threat intelligence arm of Palo Alto Networks, identified a Kuwaiti organisation’s webpage used as an apparent watering hole. The

5 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

Cryptomining will keep moving on

REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION OUTLOOK 2019 Cryptomining keeps grinding on. Filling some of the void currently and for the foreseeable future are cryptominer trojans that use victims’ computing resources to mine digital currency to

6 years ago

TECHNOLOGY

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