News of the Week: June 23, 2018
Catch up on all the latest Palo Alto Networks news of the week.
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Phishing
Phishing in a Nutshell: January – March 2018
Unit 42 uncovers over 4,000 URLs from 262 unique domains used in phishing attacks between January and March of 2018.
Automation: The Best Way to Fix a Breach
As soon as you fire up the computer, you find countless alerts regarding a phishing attack that have spread throughout your organization while you were sleeping. Any minute now, your customers, vendors and empl...
Dimnie: Hiding in Plain Sight
Recent Dimnie activity uses phishing emails to target open source developers on GitHub.
Shamoon 2: Delivering Disttrack
Unit 42's continued investigation into Shamoon 2 has unearthed more details into the method by which the threat actors delivered the Disttrack payload.
What Is a Credential-Based Attack?
Phishing and credential-based attacks have proven to be one of the most effective means of penetrating an organization. Attackers utilize various password-theft techniques to breach organizations, compromise their networks and steal critical data. There are two elements...
Can I spam from here: An Unusually Clever Spambot Tests Blacklists
Unit 42 researchers recently observed an unusually clever spambot’s attempts to increase delivery efficacy by abusing reputation blacklist service APIs. Rather than sending spam as...
Users Getting Phished? 5 Ways to Protect Data
Phishing is an old technique – I mean, really old in internet age. I first got an email address in 1996 while studying engineering. And the phishing technique was described in detail in a paper and presentation...
Fresh Baked HOMEKit-made Cookles – With a DarkHotel Overlap
Threat actors tend to reuse certain tools, a trend we observed during recent Unit 42 research published on MNKit. In this post, we will discuss a fresh toolkit, which on the surfac...
Watch: Prevention Against Targeted Phishing Attacks
In this Lightboard session, Martin Walter explains how the integration of Palo Alto Networks global URL Filtering service (PAN-DB) works with the single-pass architecture of our next- generation firewalls and o...
Reeling in Those Pesky Phishing Attacks
We often hear about cyberattacks consisting of exploits or malware meant to gain control of victim machines, and the term “phishing” has become more widely used and understood. Even my dad now knows what phishi...
NanoCoreRAT Behind an Increase in Tax-Themed Phishing E-mails
It seems every mainstream news event or holiday has an accompanying phishing campaign. Opportunistic actors hoping to capitalize on the public's atten...
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...
Customer Spotlight: The Heinz Endowments Replaces Cisco With Palo Alto Netw...
Welcome to a new series highlighting some of the most important parts of the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem: our customers. Every month, we'll look at how various types of customers...
Tip of the Week: Protecting Your Users Against Future Frights!
I don’t know about you, but last week, I got my fill of mini Snickers®, Kit Kats® and “fun-size” candy to last me another year. As all of us take dow...
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