Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019, ended July 31, 2019.
Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced that the company has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls report by...
Government-trained security company Morta Security has been snapped up by Palo Alto Networks for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was announced on Monday and arms Palo Alto Networks with a company whose staff hail from the National Security Agency, US Army, US Air Force, and others.
On January 31, a security researcher named Mohammad Faghani posted an analysis of malware that was being distributed through Facebook posts. Based on the number of “likes” the malware had generated, Faghani estimated that over 100,000 users had been infected with the malware. We have not been able to identify a common name for this
The volume of malware alerts received by security teams in Financial Services can now reach into the tens of thousands daily. Properly addressing these requires tools and security products that deliver a high degree of automation and eliminate many of the manual tasks that security teams still have to deal with when using traditional products.
For a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a cyber criminal. You’ve collected an array of tools (malware), built up your infrastructure (command and control (C2) servers) and you have a process to make money off your hard work. You wake up on Monday morning and the domains your carefully built malware uses for
CTB-Locker is a well-known ransomware Trojan used by crimeware groups to encrypt files on the victim’s endpoints and demand ransom payment to decrypt the files back to their original state. Earlier this week we detailed a new CTB-Locker campaign and why legacy security products won’t protect enterprise networks. In this blog post we will detail
Introduction CTB-Locker is a well-known ransomware Trojan used by crimeware groups to encrypt files on the victim’s endpoints and demand ransom payment to decrypt the files back to their original state, but most antiviruses detect it by mistake as CryptoLocker (only one vendor correctly detects it as CTB-Locker). The attack vector is very basic and repeats
Government-trained security company Morta Security has been snapped up by Palo Alto Networks for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was announced on Monday and arms Palo Alto Networks with a company whose staff hail from the National Security Agency, US Army, US Air Force, and others.
While awareness over the need for improved cybersecurity in SCADA and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) has improved in recent years, several inaccurate and dangerous assumptions about ICS cybersecurity best practices and the nature of cyber threats still persist. If held by organizations as fact, these myths could result in inadequate cyber-defensive measures and a high level of exposure to a range of attacks or even simple accidental cyber incidents both of which could have equally concerning consequences to process availability and safety.
