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FTC Shines a Needed Spotlight on Ransomware Prevention

This month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held its latest Fall Technology Series workshop on the increasingly prevalent threat of ransomware. The workshop was kicked off by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, who provided insight into the organization’s increasing actions to enforce data security and consumer privacy, along with t...

Events

Government

Sep 20, 2016

By Sean Morgan

Palo Alto Networks

Products and Services

Partners

Financial Services, Security Platform

How the Financial Services Industry Can Prevent Ransomware

There has been much media coverage of ransomware over the past several months. The healthcare industry has been in this spotlight most recently, but f...

May 11, 2016

By Lawrence Chin

CSO Perspective, Cybersecurity

Are Threat Indicators Enough or Should We Be Looking at Threat DNA?

As the speed and volume of threats today shows no abatement, there is much discussion that the only way to keep pace is through automation and self-learning. Although the answer so...

Feb 17, 2016

By Greg Day

CSO Perspective, Predictions

2016 Prediction #14: Six Cybersecurity Predictions for Asia-Pacific

This is the fourteenth, and final, in our series of cybersecurity predictions for 2016. Stay tuned for more through the end of the year.

Dec 28, 2015

By Sean Duca

Cybersecurity, Unit 42

Our Commitment to Sharing Threat Intelligence

Part of my role as the Director of Threat Intelligence for Palo Alto Networks is to share the intelligence we produce with others who can put it to use in defending their networks. We believe wholeheartedly tha...

Nov 23, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Malware

Network Shared Drive Encrypted by CryptoWall? How to Track Down the Infecte...

There is a lot of information on the web about preventing and recovering from CryptoWall or ransomware attacks in enterprise environments, but most don’t answer this basic question...

Nov 17, 2015

By Matt Mellen

Events, News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – November 7

Check out the top Palo Alto Networks news from the first week of November.Unit 42 detailed its findings of CryptoWall v4 and published part 2 of the Connecting the Dots in Cyber Threat Campaigns series: Passive...

Nov 07, 2015

By Anna Lough

Cybersecurity

Learn All About CryptoWall 3 and the Cyber Threat Alliance

Recent research from the Cyber Threat Alliance yielded a breakthrough in analyzing CryptoWall, a worldwide cybersecurity threat that has caused an estimated $325 million in damages...

Nov 06, 2015

By Chad Berndtson

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

CryptoWall v4 Emerges Days After Cyber Threat Alliance Report

Less than a week after the publication of a thorough report by the Cyber Threat Alliance on the CryptoWall version 3 malware family, it appears that t...

Nov 05, 2015

By Josh Grunzweig

News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – October 31

Happy Halloween! Settle in with some Halloween treats as you catch up on our top news from this past week.

Oct 31, 2015

By Chad Berndtson

Channel Scoop, Partners

Channel Scoop – October 30, 2015

With one day left in the quarter, today’s blog post will be a short channel scoop.

Oct 30, 2015

By Lang Tibbils

Announcement, CIO/CISO, Cybersecurity, Unit 42

CryptoWall 3, the Cyber Threat Alliance and the Future of Information Shari...

The Palo Alto Networks vision for threat information sharing is that cybersecurity vendors should share the intelligence that they all individually co...

Oct 29, 2015

By Rick Howard

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Latest TeslaCrypt Ransomware Borrows Code From Carberp Trojan

In recent weeks, we have noticed changes in the TeslaCrypt ransomware malware family’s code base. OpenDNS recently discussed some of these changes reg...

Oct 09, 2015

By Josh Grunzweig

Malware, Threat Advisory/Analysis, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Updated PClock Ransomware Still Comes Up Short

In recent years, ransomware families are often glamorized as being some of the most dangerous types of malware. They’ve certainly caused a wealth of damage to end users with some o...

Sep 29, 2015

By Josh Grunzweig

Malware, Unit 42

What’s Next in Malware After Kuluoz?

Regular readers of this blog have heard all about the infamous Kuluoz malware. This family was the latest evolution of the Asprox malware and at its peak in 2014 it accounted for 80% of all malware sessions we observed in WildFire. When the team published our Threat Lan...

Aug 10, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Events, News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – February 7

Did everyone have a good first week of February? Check out all of the top Palo Alto Networks news from this past week.

Feb 07, 2015

By Chad Berndtson

Cybersecurity, Malware, Threat Advisory/Analysis, Unit 42

Analysis: CryptoWall 3.0, Dyre and I2P

For a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a cyber criminal. You’ve collected an array of tools (malware), built up your infrastructure (command and control (C2) servers) and you have a process to make money off your hard work. You wake up...

Feb 01, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Malware, Threat Advisory/Analysis, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Tracking New Ransomware CryptoWall 2.0

The latest development in the ransomware world is CryptoWall 2.0, a new version of this malware family that uses the Tor network for command and control.

Oct 22, 2014

By Ryan Olson

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