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Christopher Budd, January 30, 2017
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Threat Brief: Shamoon 2 Wave 3 Attacks

Read the new Unit 42 Threat Brief for the latest update on Shamoon 2. …

Jeff White, January 27, 2017
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Farming Malicious Documents to Unravel Ransomware

Unit 42 researcher analyzes new threat technique in this blog post on the farming of malicious documents to unravel ransomware. …

Simon Conant, January 26, 2017
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Exploring the Cybercrime Underground: Part 3 – Into t…

In this third part of Unit 42’s Cybercrime Underground blog series, we’re taking a slightly different approach. In this blog we begin with data from a real attack in the wild, and use the evidenc …

Dominik Reichel, January 6, 2017
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2016 Updates to Shifu Banking Trojan

Overview Shifu is a Banking Trojan first discovered in 2015. Shifu is based on the Shiz source code which incorporated techniques used by Zeus. Attackers use Shifu to steal credentials for online bank …

Alex Hinchliffe, December 23, 2016
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Review of Regional Malware Trends in EMEA: Part 1

Introduction As we head towards the end of the year it’s common to reflect on the year almost behind us and to predict what the new year approaching will bring in terms of security challenges. This …

Christopher Budd, December 16, 2016
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Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Vulnerability Research Decem…

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 and Microsoft. Th …

Robert Falcone and Bryan Lee, December 15, 2016
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Let It Ride: The Sofacy Group’s DealersChoice Attacks…

Recently, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reported on a new exploitation platform that we called “DealersChoice” in use by the Sofacy group (AKA APT28, Fancy Bear, STRONTIUM, Pawn Storm, Sednit). As …