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Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – July 23, 2016

We’ve rounded up all of our top news from this past week right here.

Unit 42 found Andromeda malware targeting Italian users in recent spam campaigns, and shared a technical walkthrough of the Office Test persistence me...

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Jul 23, 2016

By Anna Lough

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Andromeda Botnet Targets Italy in Recent Spam Campaigns

Over the past month, Palo Alto Networks has observed two spam campaigns targeting users residing in Italy. The spam emails attempt to install the pervasive Andromeda malware onto victim machines. This malware h...

Jul 18, 2016

By Josh Grunzweig and Brandon Levene

Malware, Unit 42

Ransomware: Locky, TeslaCrypt, Other Malware Families Use New Tool To Evade...

Today we identified a new tool actively being used by the Locky ransomware family to evade detection and potentially infect endpoints. Unit 42 identified slight changes in Locky de...

Apr 08, 2016

By Jeff White, Chris Astacio and Micah Yates