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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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Jul 30, 2016

By Anna Lough

Palo Alto Networks

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Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Researchers Discover Critical Safari 9.1 Vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks researchers were recently credited with the discovery of an Apple product vulnerability.

Jul 27, 2016

By Ryan Olson

Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Researchers Uncover Critical Apple Product Vulnerabiliti...

Palo Alto Networks researchers were recently credited with discovery of two new Apple product vulnerabilities.

Jun 02, 2016

By Ryan Olson

Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Pirated iOS App Store’s Client Successfully Evaded Apple iOS Code Review

Apple’s official iOS App Store is well known for its strict code review of any app submitted by a developer. This mandatory policy has become one of the most important mechanisms i...

Feb 21, 2016

By Claud Xiao

Reports, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Scarlet Mimic: Years-Long Espionage Campaign Targets Minority Activists

Over the past seven months, Unit 42 has been investigating a series of attacks we attribute to a group we have code named “Scarlet Mimic.” The attacks...

Jan 24, 2016

By Robert Falcone and Jen Miller-Osborn

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

The Threat Intelligence Research That Mattered to You This Year

Unit 42 did some incredible work in 2015 discovering, analyzing and disclosing malware – some new and others making a reappearance. Take a look below...

Dec 30, 2015

By Anna Lough

Malware, Mobility, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

iOS Trojan “TinyV” Attacks Jailbroken Devices

In October 2015, we discovered a malicious payload file targeting Apple iOS devices. After investigating, we believe the payload belongs to a new iOS Trojan family that we’re calling “TinyV”. In December 2015,...

Dec 15, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Researchers Discover High Severity Vulnerability Impacti...

Palo Alto Networks researchers Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu are credited with discovering a new vulnerability (CVE-2015-7066) in OpenGL and Webkit that impacts all of Apple’s major product...

Dec 09, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Malware, Mobility, Reports, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

BackStab: Mobile Backup Data Under Attack from Malware

Today we are releasing a whitepaper describing how malicious actors are stealing private mobile device data by accessing local backup files stored on PC and Mac computers. We have identified 704 samples of six...

Dec 07, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

YiSpecter: First iOS Malware That Attacks Non-jailbroken Apple iOS Devices ...

We recently identified a new Apple iOS malware and named it YiSpecter. YiSpecter is different from previously seen iOS malware in that it attacks both...

Oct 04, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

More Details on the XcodeGhost Malware and Affected iOS Apps

A few days ago, we investigated a new malware called XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode, infects iOS apps and is seen in the App Store. We also found more...

Sep 21, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Malware XcodeGhost Infects 39 iOS Apps, Including WeChat, Affecting Hundred...

Yesterday we posted an analysis report on a novel malware XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode IDE to infect Apple iOS apps. In the report, we mentioned tha...

Sep 18, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Novel Malware XcodeGhost Modifies Xcode, Infects Apple iOS Apps and Hits Ap...

UPDATE: Since this report's original posting on September 17, three additional XCodeGhost updates have been published, available here, here and here.

Sep 17, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Cybersecurity, Malware, Mobility, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

KeyRaider iOS Malware: How to Keep Yourself Safe

Earlier this week we published an analysis of KeyRaider, which is an iOS malware family and a reminder of the risks users take when they choose to jailbreak their mobile devices.

Sep 01, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Malware, Mobility, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

KeyRaider: iOS Malware Steals Over 225,000 Apple Accounts to Create Free Ap...

Recently, WeipTech was analyzing suspicious Apple iOS tweaks reported by users and found over 225,000 valid Apple accounts with passwords stored on a...

Aug 30, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Unit 42

Learn More About WireLurker and the Impact to OS X and iOS

Recently Palo Alto Networks researcher Claud Xiao discovered WireLurker, a new family of Apple OS X and iOS malware with characteristics unseen in any previously documented threats...

Dec 05, 2014

By Chad Berndtson

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

The Question of WireLurker Attribution: Who Is Responsible?

After news of WireLurker began circulating in handful Chinese-language tech forums over the summer, a Chinese-language technology blogger conducted on...

Nov 10, 2014

By Jen Miller-Osborn

Malware, Mobility, Reports, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

WireLurker: A New Era in OS X and iOS Malware

Today we published a new research paper on WireLurker, a family of malware targeting both Mac OS and iOS systems for the past six months. We believe that this malware family heralds a new era in malware attacki...

Nov 05, 2014

By Claud Xiao

Cybersecurity, Malware, Threat Prevention, Web Security

Knowledge Is Power: Using Cyber Scrutiny To Defend Against Phishing Attacks

Some of you may have even clicked the “Verify Now” link and entered your Apple ID account information. I hope not, though, because this email is not f...

Oct 23, 2014

By Palo Alto Networks

Mobility, Unit 42

Privacy: Why Apple Pay will be Better than Google Wallet

On September 9, Apple announced that the latest iPhone models would come with a new technology called Apple Pay which allows people to purchase items with their phones, both in stores and online. Many smug Andr...

Sep 18, 2014

By Ryan Olson

Uncategorized

What's APPening with Apple FaceTime

As the Antenna-gate controversy raged and finally subsided, the team here was busy enhancing our App-ID technology to identify Apple’s new video calling feature – FaceTime. It is essentially the audio-video chat functionality of Apple's iChat for desktops, but tied to t...

Aug 05, 2010

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