A Firewall Bug Becomes a Ransomware Tool A flaw in Palo Alto Networks enterprise firewalls has become a full-fledged ransomware tool. It lets attackers enter protected networks without a password. Unit 42 confirmed that...
Palo Alto Networks recently disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability actively exploited against enterprise firewalls. The security flaw allows authenticated adversaries to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. Consequently, an attacker can seize total operational...
Penetration testing is ceasing to be a rare checkup and turning into a tool of constant digital monitoring. Palo Alto Networks has unveiled Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a service that uses Claude...
A single vulnerable VPN gateway can lay open an entire corporate network. Affiliates of the Qilin extortion group are already turning a fresh PAN-OS GlobalProtect flaw to precisely that purpose. Arctic Wolf specialists have...
Two nascent zero-day vulnerabilities within the Ivanti mobile device management ecosystem are currently being exploited in live offensives, with the scale of compromise far exceeding isolated incidents. Adversaries are engaged in the mass-scanning of...
Palo Alto Networks has conspicuously tempered the rhetoric within its latest dossier regarding an extensive cyber-espionage campaign, eschewing a direct attribution to China despite initial drafts containing such definitive conclusions. Sources familiar with the...
Palo Alto Networks has successfully remediated a perilous vulnerability within its firewalls that permitted unauthenticated adversaries to effectively neutralize security defenses. The flaw could be weaponized to orchestrate denial-of-service (DoS) incursions, ultimately forcing devices...
Artificial intelligence, now an indispensable assistant in business, is increasingly being viewed as a potential source of internal threats. According to Wendy Whitmore, head of security research at Palo Alto Networks, autonomous AI agents...
GreyNoise has recorded a dramatic surge in automated requests targeting Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect authentication portals. The scale of this spike is highly atypical: within just 24 hours, the volume of network sessions hitting...
During a discussion of Palo Alto Networks’ results for the first quarter of 2026, CEO Nikesh Arora offered a forecast that immediately drew the attention of analysts. According to him, nations that are heavily...
The Unit 42 team at Palo Alto Networks has uncovered a large-scale search poisoning campaign dubbed Operation Rewrite, in which Chinese-speaking threat actors deployed malicious BadIIS components onto internet-facing servers and used compromised websites...
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have reported a surge in attacks leveraging the open-source platform AdaptixC2, originally designed for penetration testing but now increasingly exploited by cybercriminals. Unit 42 specialists first detected traces of...
