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... Read more
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 cyb... Read more
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 phon... Read more
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 that ultimately... Read more
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. Significantl... Read more
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... Read more
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,... Read more
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 ti... Read more
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... Read more
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 appa... Read more