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Cardbuyer: New Smart Android Trojan Defeats Multi-factor Verification and Steals Prepaid Game Cards

On April 21st our WildFire analysis cloud detected a new Android Trojan, which is currently completely undetected in VirusTotal and uses a new combination of tactics to make money for the author. Based on the state of the code and the limited distribution we believe we may have detected this malware during a testing phase, befor...

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Apr 24, 2014

By Claud Xiao and Zhi Xu

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Stopping Windows XP Attacks On the Endpoint

Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows XP users with patches and security updates, but Palo Alto Networks offers multiple ways of protecting Windows XP customers, including the...

Apr 11, 2014

By Scott Simkin

Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Prevention

Real-world Impact of Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160): The Web is Just the Start

We know how important SSL is to the modern Internet, and how the Heartbleed vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160: OpenSSL Private Key Disclosure Vulnerability...

Apr 10, 2014

By Scott Simkin

Announcement, Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Prevention

Palo Alto Networks Addresses Heartbleed Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)

A critical vulnerability in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160: OpenSSL Private Key Disclosure Vulnerability) was recently disclosed, which affects servers runnin...

Apr 09, 2014

By Scott Simkin

Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Prevention

Palo Alto Networks Showcases Leading Threat Research with Discovery of 5 Cr...

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and today’s sophisticated attackers require a deep understanding of how applications are actively exploited in the...

Mar 11, 2014

By Scott Simkin

Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories

Palo Alto Networks Discovers 4 Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

Palo Alto Networks researcher Bo Qu has discovered 4 new critical Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerabilities covering versions 8, 9, 10, and the latest, I...

Feb 11, 2014

By Scott Simkin

Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories

Palo Alto Networks Discovers Another New Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Following his discovery of 3 critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) last month, Palo Alto Networks Researcher Bo Qu has identifi...

Dec 10, 2013

By Scott Simkin

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Coverage Information for Microsoft Security Advisory (2896666), Microsoft G...

On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Microsoft issued a Security Advisory for a graphics vulnerability exploited through Office and Word documents in multiple versions of Microsoft Office...

Nov 11, 2013

By John Harrison

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Coverage Information for Microsoft Security Advisory (2887505), Internet Ex...

Microsoft has published a Security Advisory (“Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution”) that discloses a new critical vulnerability in all versions of...

Sep 23, 2013

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Advisory/Analysis

Emergency Threat Content Release

Today Palo Alto Networks has released an emergency content release (version 349) that addresses critical new vulnerabilities in Java JRE as well as Adobe Reader. Exploits of the Java vulnerabilities have been observed in the wild in exploit...

Jan 11, 2013

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisories - Advisories, Uncategorized

Palo Alto Networks Releases Signature for BIND 9 Vulnerability

This week started off with a bang when a vulnerability in BIND was accidentally disclosed earlier than expected. BIND is an open source and extremely...

Jul 07, 2011

By Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity, Malware, SCADA & ICS, Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Prevention

Stuxnet - SCADA malware

Stuxnet is the first malware in recent history that attacked industrial control systems also known as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems developed by Siemens (Siemens SIMATIC WinCC). These...

Oct 03, 2010

By Anna Lough

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Microsoft SMB2 Vulnerability

Microsoft has announced an out-of-band release for a vulnerability (CVE-2009-3103) in the SMB2 protocol which exposes Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista users to possible remote code execution attacks. It does not appear that Windows 2000 and Windows XP are affected...

Sep 11, 2009

By Alfred Lee

Threat Advisories - Advisories

New Conficker Variants

Conficker is back in the news as there are reports of new variants popping up. I'm sure that you've all heard the news and hype about how many endpoints Conficker has infected, and even more speculation on what the bot herder will do with the massive botnet. Here's some...

Mar 23, 2009

By Alfred Lee

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Marine One Blueprints found on P2P network

What's next -- the missile launch codes? While the record industry has targeted the universities and student populations in their battle against piracy, P2P use has enjoyed continued success in the business wor...

Mar 03, 2009

By Matt Keil

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Heartland Corporation: Malware Causes Largest Data Breach In History

Holy Crap! Heartland, a card processing service for more that 250,000 small businesses discloses a malware generated breach on inauguration day. The scope is unfathomable. If each...

Jan 21, 2009

By Matt Keil

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Microsoft Security Bulletin - November 2008

Microsoft announced their scheduled November security bulletin today at 10am PST which covers 4 Microsoft vulnerabilities. Palo Alto Networks released coverage for the Microsoft vulnerabilities covered in the N...

Nov 11, 2008

By Alfred Lee

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Out-of-Band Microsoft Security Bulletin

Microsoft announced an unscheduled security bulletin today at 10AM PST that they have a critical vulnerability (MS08-067) which affects Windows 2000, XP, 2K3 Server, Vista, and 2K8 operating systems. This vulne...

Oct 22, 2008

By Alfred Lee

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