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Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – July 30, 2016

Catch up on all of the top Palo Alto Networks news from the week.

Unit 42 had a busy week! Researchers Robert Falcone and Jen Miller-Osborn observed a 9002 Trojan delivered using a combination of shortened links and ...

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Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Afraidgate: Major Exploit Kit Campaign Switches from CryptXXX Ransomware Ba...

By mid-July 2016, the Afraidgate campaign stopped distributing CryptXXX ransomware. It is now distributing the ".zepto" variant of Locky. Afraidgate h...

Jul 29, 2016

By Brad Duncan

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Afraidgate: Major Exploit Kit Campaign Swaps Locky Ransomware for CryptXXX

In mid-April 2016, a campaign using Nuclear Exploit Kit (EK) to distribute Locky ransomware switched to using the Angler EK to install CryptXXX ransom...

Apr 28, 2016

By Brad Duncan