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Adobe Flash

Fake Flash Updaters Push Cryptocurrency Miners

In most cases, fake Flash updates pushing malware are not very stealthy. In recent years, such imposters have often been poorly-disguised malware executables or script-based downloaders designed to install cryptocurrency miners, information stealers, or ransomware. If a victim runs such poorly-disguised malware on a vulnerable Windows host, no visible activity happens, unless the fake updater is pushing ransomware....

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Oct 11, 2018

By Brad Duncan

Palo Alto Networks

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News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – June 10, 2017

Platform Falcon? Endpoint Turtle? Find out who your Palo Alto Networks Ignite ’17 security guardian is.

Jun 10, 2017

By Justin Hall

News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – June 3, 2017

Platform Falcon? Endpoint Turtle? Find out who your Palo Alto Networks Ignite ’17 security guardian is.

Jun 03, 2017

By Justin Hall

Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Vulnerability Research May 2017 Disclosures

As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have discovered two code execution vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft...

Jun 01, 2017

By Christopher Budd

Unit 42

Pulling the Brake on the Magnitude EK Train

This blog goes into detail on recent work that Unit 42 has done to identify malicious sites associated with the Magnitude Exploit Kit (EK). It details the investigation process involved in identifying the algor...

Apr 13, 2017

By Jeff White

Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Vulnerability Research March 2017 Disclosures

As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have discovered three code execution vulnerabilities affecting Adobe F...

Mar 16, 2017

By Christopher Budd

Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Vulnerability Research February 2017 Disclosures

As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have discovered two code execution vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Fla...

Mar 03, 2017

By Christopher Budd

Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Vulnerability Research December 2016 Disclosures

As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have reported six vulnerabilities that have been fixed by Apple, Adobe...

Dec 16, 2016

By Christopher Budd

News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – October 22, 2016

Did you miss any of this week’s Palo Alto Networks action? Don’t worry, we’ve rounded up the top news right here.

Oct 22, 2016

By Justin Hall

Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Researcher Discovers Eight Critical Vulnerabilities in A...

Palo Alto Networks was recently credited with the discovery of eight new vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Flash Player.

Sep 19, 2016

By Ryan Olson

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

New Attacks Linked to C0d0so0 Group

While recently researching unknown malware and attack campaigns using the AutoFocus threat intelligence platform, Unit 42 discovered new activity that appears related to an adversary group previously called “C0d0so0” or “Codoso”. This group...

Jan 22, 2016

By Josh Grunzweig and Bryan Lee

Endpoint

Back to the Future: You Don’t Need a Time Machine to Prevent Previously Unk...

Today is Back to the Future day, and the date above, as all fans of the iconic movie know, is what was programmed into the DeLorean time machine. The concept of time travel has lon...

Oct 21, 2015

By Sebastian Goodwin

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

UPS: Observations on CVE-2015-3113, Prior Zero-Days and the Pirpi Payload

A June 23 FireEye blog post titled “Operation Clandestine Wolf” discussed a cyber espionage group, known as APT3, that had been exploiting a zero-day...

Jul 27, 2015

By Robert Falcone and Richard Wartell

Cybersecurity

All Recent Unit 42 Threat Intelligence - Right at the Top of Your Inbox

Unit 42, the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team, shares regular research insights, including blog posts, whitepapers, videos and podcasts. Get notified every time new Unit...

Jul 21, 2015

By Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity, Malware, Security Platform, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Watering Hole Attack on Aerospace Firm Exploits CVE-2015-5122 to Install Is...

On July 16, 2015, the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat intelligence team discovered a watering hole attack on the website of a well-known aerospace f...

Jul 20, 2015

By Bryan Lee and Josh Grunzweig

Events, News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – July 11

Here is all of the top Palo Alto Networks news from this past week.

Jul 11, 2015

By Chad Berndtson

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

APT Group UPS Targets US Government with Hacking Team Flash Exploit

On July 8, 2015, Unit 42 used the AutoFocus Threat Intelligence service to locate and investigate activity consistent with a spear-phishing attack tar...

Jul 10, 2015

By Bryan Lee and Robert Falcone

Endpoint, Security Platform

UPDATED: Palo Alto Networks Traps Protects From Latest Flash Zero-Day Vulne...

Following last week’s headline-grabbing Hacking Team breach, we all learned of exploits utilizing various zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash. Successful exploitation of any of...

Jul 09, 2015

By Palo Alto Networks

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

The Latest Flash UAF Vulnerabilities in Exploit Kits

Recently, several popular exploit kits, including Angler, Flash EK, SweetOrange, Fiesta andNeutrino[1], have included several use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash to exploit victims’ browsers. Pr...

May 28, 2015

By Tao Yan

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