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Dplug Android malware discovered by WildFire

In July 2013, WildFire detected a new kind of Android Package File (APK) malware named Dplug. This malware poses as a system tool app for memory cleaning. Dplug uses SMS to hijack the device’s unique identifiers, subscribe to premium services and hide this behavior from the user by blocking the premium service notifications.

By reviewing its behaviors in our WildFire APK sandbox, we observed the following features of this malware. (more…)...

Threat Advisory/Analysis

Sep 05, 2013

By Zhi Xu

Palo Alto Networks

Company & Culture

Products and Services

Events, Uncategorized

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2013 - Day 1

This week, I’m visiting the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2013 in National Harbor, Maryland. It’s early June weather here, and outdoors there’s been cycles of warm...

Jun 10, 2013

By Brian Tokuyoshi

Update on the App-ID cache pollution issue

March 2013 update: I wanted give you all an update to the App-ID cache pollution issue that was discovered earlier this year. First off, we should have managed this issue more effectively – we learned from the...

Mar 29, 2013

By Rene Bonvanie

App-ID Cache Pollution Update

March 27, 2013 Update: I wanted give you all an update to the App-ID cache pollution issue that was discovered earlier this year. First off, we should have managed this issue more effectively – we learned from the experience and we will be customer-focused in our commen...

Jan 01, 2013

By Matt Keil

App-ID Cache Pollution: Merry Christmas From Check Point

March 27, 2013 Update: I wanted give you all an update to the App-ID cache pollution issue that was discovered earlier this year. First off, we should have managed this issue more effectively – we learned from...

Dec 28, 2012

By Matt Keil

Keeping Up With Threats in the Virtualized Data Center

Its no secret that modern data centers are in the midst of an ongoing period of very dynamic evolution that has fundamentally changed the speed and efficiency of enterprise computing. As security professionals...

Nov 08, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Raymond James Financial, a Customer Snapshot

Today we announced that global financial firm Raymond James Financial is working with Palo Alto Networks as they undergo a legacy firewall migration to better serve their business.

Sep 19, 2012

By Rene Bonvanie

Building Security Into Your Virtualized Data Center

You’ve heard a lot about the guidance to build security into the network, instead of bolting it on later. As a concept, this seems simple enough. If automobile companies added security features like seat belts...

Jul 30, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Training the CISO

Earlier this week, I caught an article by Eric Chabrow about the increase in cybersecurity/infosec leadership programs. This is something that is long overdue – putting actual education behind the idea that leading information security requires a different perspective than practicing it. (more&he...

Jul 26, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Data Center, Uncategorized

Zero Trust Solution Brief

During the recent Data Center summit, two of the most common questions were how to get more information on the Forrester Research Zero Trust architecture and how to implement a Zero Trust network architecture with Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.

Jul 18, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Getting from Here to There – Executing a Next-Generation Firewall Strategy

As organizations make their preparations to switch from a stateful inspection firewall to a Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall, we find that some customers are at differen...

Jul 11, 2012

By Brian Tokuyoshi

Policy Exception 2.0

Last week, we published our 9th Application Usage and Risk Report summarizing the application traffic patterns observed between November 2011 and April 2012 on more than 2,000 networks worldwide. The most significant and startling difference between this report and the...

Jul 03, 2012

By Matt Keil

Watch Out Corporate Networks, Here Come the Olympics!

Here in the states, the excitement around the 2012 Olympics is building rapidly as we watch the U.S. Olympic team trials for track and field, swimming and gymnastics. The competition is an amazing teaser to wh...

Jun 27, 2012

By Matt Keil

Firewall, Uncategorized

Surfing the Log Files

If you’re like me, there’s a perfect hour that happens right after the kids go to sleep. Your spouse settles down to read a book, and you have the remote control to the television all to yourself. With no plan for what to watch, how do you find something that you’re int...

Jun 18, 2012

By Brian Tokuyoshi

Coverage Information for Microsoft Security Advisory (2719615)

Microsoft has published a Security Advisory ("Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution") that discloses a new critical vulnerability in Micros...

Jun 14, 2012

By Taylor Ettema

Bavaria

Growing up in the Netherlands, I was placed in a classic Dutch dilemma. As a beer drinking nation, I was faced with endless choices and each brand had its loyal fans who could explain why their brew was truly unique. Bavaria always stood out to me as special: family-owned, family-run for 7 generatio...

Jun 08, 2012

By Rene Bonvanie

Will You Be at the Gartner Summit?

We’re excited to be a Platinum sponsor at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit taking place next week (June 11-14, 2012) in Washington, DC. This summit is a great time not only to get together with Gartner analysts but it also gives us an opportunity to meet...

Jun 07, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Getting Network Connectivity By Any Means Necessary

A number of years ago, I read Howard Schultz’s book “Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time”. One interesting aspect of it described how Schultz saw the coffee shop as somethin...

Jun 06, 2012

By Brian Tokuyoshi

Threat Advisory/Analysis, Uncategorized

Protections Released for Flame

Today Palo Alto Networks released emergency antivirus release #756 to provide coverage for the recently discovered Flame malware. This update includes multiple signatures to detect the main module of Flame as well as its subcomponents inclu...

May 30, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

The Firewall is Dead. Long Live the Firewall!

Recently, Roger Grimes opined that the firewall was dead. Several folks chimed in to tell him that he was wrong, and much debate has ensued, citing reports about the nature of recent breaches, how attacks used...

May 18, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Fresh Perspectives on Consumerization and BYOD - Part 3

This is the third of a three-part blog series exploring the issues and challenges with consumerization and BYOD. In part 1 of this series, we examined the challenge of dealing with the scope and diversity of co...

May 11, 2012

By Brian Tokuyoshi

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