Nigerian email scammers have come a long way from the days of asking for money to help a member of the country's royal family.

actors have been attributed to more than 51,000 malware samples and 1.1 million cyber attacks over the last four years as they are gaining experience quickly as they adopt new technologies, techniques, and malware to advance their schemes, according to a May 9 blog post.

SilverTerrier is not a traditional cybercrime group. It is the collective name Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks gives to Nigerian cybercriminals. SilverTerrier continues to grow (over 400 individual actors) and evolve (from advance fee and 419 scams to business email compromise (BEC) and malware distribution).

Scammers running business email compromise (BEC) fraud have grown in number, attack more often, and turn to remote access trojans as the preferred malware type to accompany their raids.

Companies like IBM and Palo Alto Networks scramble to hire hundreds of thousands of corporate hackers to defend networks and data

Despite a doxing of its targets and tools in March, the advanced persistent threat group known as OilRig remains a significant threat to governments and businesses, researchers at Palo Alto Network's Unit 42 report.

Attackers are actively exploiting recently fixed vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic and the Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence to deliver ransomware, mine cryptocurrency and make the compromised machines participate in DDoS attacks.

Researchers are urging Oracle WebLogic users to update quickly – after new Muhstik botnet samples started targeting a critical flaw in the servers.

A recently observed variant of the Muhstik botnet is exploiting a recently disclosed Oracle WebLogic server vulnerability for cryptomining and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Hackers are increasingly automating their attacks, enabling them to exploit vulnerabilities more quickly.

Earlier this month, a prolific hacking group said to be sponsored by Iran had its cyber arsenal leaked. A bundle of tools and target information belonging to the crew, dubbed OilRig, were thrown up on the web for all and sundry to see, marking the most significant leak of Iran's cyber weaponry to date.

GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts.

YOU’VE SEEN THE ads in your email or online: Celebrities supposedly hawking miracle weight-loss cures or galaxy brain supplements.

GoDaddy removed a cluster of more than 15,000 fraudulent website subdomains discovered by a researcher at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team.

Palo Alto Networks researchers spot versions for 5 more processors in the wild.

Jen Miller-Osborn, Deputy Director of Threat Intelligence for Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, breaks down all of the research their unit has issued with regard to nation-state-linked APTs.

With changing security landscape and increasing compute power and threat vectors, 5G security needs to embrace a holistic protection approach that includes not just the networks, but the end user and IoT devices. Learn about Palo Alto Networks' approach to 5G security with Scott Stevens, CTO for service providers at Palo Alto Networks.

Cyber attacks attempts to deploy the keylogging, screenshot-taking, password-stealing Cardinal RAT malware.

Cyber attacks attempts to deploy the keylogging, screenshot-taking, password-stealing Cardinal RAT malware.

Virulent malware updated to add 11 new exploits.

Just how significant is the threat activity by malicious actors against the global cybercommunity? One major cybersecurity company offers a hint of the current level of attacks.

Most businesses standardize on couple of server, network and storage vendors but are forced to use dozens of security vendors. Palo Alto Networks uses its platform security approach to enable partners to add their IP under the umbrella of a single provider.

Understanding and evaluating risk is always a hot top for security professionals.

Despite a proliferation of security tools, breaches continue to happen.

The annual RSA Security Conference officially kicked off Tuesday morning with keynotes from host RSA, Cisco Systems and the FBI.

New release of Palo Alto Network's core operating system platform adds multiple new features including a DNS security service and a Policy Optimizer capability.

Human resources experts identify top priorities for the profession in 2019

Palo Alto Networks and Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

The latest partner-program update comes on the heels of significant C-level change.

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 security division recently discovered malware that targets the Mac platform and enables hackers to steal browser cookies, or login credentials, associated with mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites.