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# Palo Alto Networks News of the Week -- July 2, 2016

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Now is your chance to catch up on all of our top news from this past week.

Game over, Prince of Persia: Unit 42 helped take down the [Infy malware](http://bit.ly/291CTyR) campaign by successfully gaining control of multiple C2 domains to disable attacker's access to victims.

Unit 42 researchers also [identified a variant of MNKit](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2016/06/unit42-recent-mnkit-exploit-activity-reveals-some-common-threads/?ts=markdown)-weaponized documents being used to deliver LURK0 Gh0st, NetTraveler, and Saker payloads, analyzing connections between past and recent MNKit activity.

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Watch: Insights from Greg Day, Palo Alto Networks CSO in EMEA, based on his experience at this year's [Infosecurity Europe](http://bit.ly/291bCzC) in London.

Tech Docs: Learn how to simplify firewall management using [template stacks](http://bit.ly/28ZHzaz) in the PAN-OS 7.1 Administrator's Guide.

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