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Top Takeaways from the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report

In just a matter of months during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of employees working remotely jumped alarmingly from 20% to 71%. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, and in response enterprises quickly scaled their cloud spend in the third quarter of that same year. Remote work surged, and organizations accelerated their cloud migration plans. Needless to say, Q3 of 2020 saw a massive influx of companies moving to the cloud....

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Jun 23, 2021

By Mariya Harris

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Unit 42 Sees Surge in Attacks by Nigerian Cybercriminals

Attacks by the Nigeria-based SilverTerrier cybercrime gang surged in 2018 as the group increasingly focused on high-tech firms and wholesalers, according to a new analysis from the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 th...

May 09, 2019

By Christopher Budd

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OilRig Data Analysis Shows Breadth of Hacking Campaign

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat research team has determined that the OilRig hacking group’s activities are more widespread than previously understood, compromising at least 97 organizations in 27 countries,...

Apr 30, 2019

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‘BabyShark’ Targets Cryptocurrency Industry

Palo Alto Networks has discovered that the threat actor behind the BabyShark malware family has expanded its operations beyond conducting espionage to also targeting the cryptocurrency industry.

Apr 26, 2019

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Unit 42, GoDaddy Shutter Subdomains Selling Miracles

The compromised sites were uncovered in an investigation by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Jeff White, who examined a massive campaign in which affiliate marketers used spam to push victims to sites wher...

Apr 25, 2019

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Exploring DNS Abuse

DNS is a critical foundation of the Internet. There would be no way to get to websites without it, except by entering numerical IP addresses. Like so much on the internet, the power that makes DNS beneficial for everyone can be abused by a few for the detriment of many.

Mar 15, 2019

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