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We Can’t Do It Alone: Sharing Threat Intelligence Makes Everyone Safer

At Palo Alto Networks and within Unit 42 threat intelligence, we share our findings about threat actor activity regularly with the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) – an intelligence sharing organization founded in 2014 by Palo Alto Networks alongside several of our competitors. Over the past nearly 10 years, the CTA has grown to incl...

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Jun 20, 2023

By Michael Sikorski

Palo Alto Networks

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‘BabyShark’ Targets Cryptocurrency Industry

Palo Alto Networks has discovered that the threat actor behind the BabyShark malware family has expanded its operations beyond conducting espionage to also targeting the cryptocurrency industry.

Apr 26, 2019

By Unit 42

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News of the Week: September 22, 2018

Did you miss any of this week’s Palo Alto Networks action? Don’t worry – we’ve rounded up our top news and views right here:

Sep 22, 2018

By Justin Hall

CSO Perspective, Points of View, Secure the Enterprise

It’s Time to Get off the Treadmill: Why You Should Understand Adversary Pla...

The excerpted article below originally appeared on CSO Online. When deploying prevention and detection controls, most network defenders are on a tread...

Sep 10, 2018

By Rick Howard

CSO Perspective

Deterrence in Cyberspace: A Greater Role for Industry (Part One of a Three ...

In early 2017 I participated in a RAND conference that looked at deterrence in cyberspace (among other issues) as it applied to the U.S. – Japan alliance. During this conference I...

May 02, 2017

By John Davis

CSO Perspective

The Cyber Threat Alliance: How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Going

In 2015, I published a blog post about the completion of a 90-day proof-of-concept experiment, called Project Redstone. The experiment, conducted by the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA)...

Feb 15, 2017

By Rick Howard

Announcement, Cybersecurity

Cyber Threat Alliance Expands: Working Together to Prevent Cyber Breaches

Normally, we are competitors. However, the Cyber Threat Alliance brings us all together in good faith to share threat information for the purpose of improving defenses against adva...

Feb 14, 2017

By Mark McLaughlin

Events, Government

FTC Shines a Needed Spotlight on Ransomware Prevention

This month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held its latest Fall Technology Series workshop on the increasingly prevalent threat of ransomware. The workshop was kicked off by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, who...

Sep 20, 2016

By Sean Morgan

CSO Perspective, Cybersecurity

ISC 2016: How To Improve Global Cooperation In Cybersecurity

I recently gave the opening keynote presentation at China’s Internet Security Conference (ISC) 2016. ISC is China’s largest international cybersecurity conference and was held from...

Aug 31, 2016

By John Davis

CSO Perspective, Financial Services

Putting the METI Cyberthreat Information Sharing Recommendation Into Action...

(This blog post is also available in Japanese.)In our May 2016 blog post, we described Japan’s new Cybersecurity Guidelines for Business Leadership Ve...

Jul 25, 2016

By Mihoko Matsubara and Danielle Kriz

CIO/CISO, CSO Perspective, Cybersecurity, Events

Cybersecurity Is Not a Cost – Leverage the Fourth Industrial Revolution for...

On June 7, 2016, Palo Alto Networks held an international cybersecurity conference in Tokyo called Palo Alto Networks Day. Over 1,200 participants fro...

Jun 09, 2016

By Mihoko Matsubara

Cybersecurity, SCADA & ICS

How to Prevent Ransomware in Industrial Control Systems

Del Rodillas, our solution lead for SCADA & Industrial Control Systems, recently appeared in Electric Light & Power to discuss ransomware as an emerging threat for Operational Technology environments. W...

Jun 08, 2016

By Chad Berndtson

Cybersecurity, Events

Palo Alto Networks Signs Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Manifesto, Sh...

Today in Amsterdam, Palo Alto Networks joined more than two dozen other companies and organizations in signing a “Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Manifesto.” The Manifesto is...

May 12, 2016

By Rene Bonvanie

CIO/CISO, CSO Perspective, Cybersecurity

Four Imperatives for Cybersecurity Success in the Digital Age: Part 4

Having joined Palo Alto Networks following a 35-year career in the U.S. military, the past decade of which I served in a variety of leadership positio...

Apr 27, 2016

By John Davis

CSO Perspective, Cybersecurity

The Growing Role of Cyber Insurance

The cynical would suggest that cyber insurance is growing as some look for a cheaper route to manage risk. However many see the cyber insurance industry as potentially the new enforcer of good security practices.

Feb 03, 2016

By Greg Day

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

Announcement, Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks 2015 Year in Review

It's been another exciting year here at Palo Alto Networks -- chock full of big news, interesting events, and groundbreaking research. Let's take a look back at some of the top-performing content and most interesting news from the past year. (more…)

Dec 31, 2015

By Anna Lough

CSO Perspective, Predictions

2016 Prediction #14: Six Cybersecurity Predictions for Asia-Pacific

This is the fourteenth, and final, in our series of cybersecurity predictions for 2016. Stay tuned for more through the end of the year.

Dec 28, 2015

By Sean Duca

Cybersecurity, Unit 42

Our Commitment to Sharing Threat Intelligence

Part of my role as the Director of Threat Intelligence for Palo Alto Networks is to share the intelligence we produce with others who can put it to use in defending their networks. We believe wholeheartedly tha...

Nov 23, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Malware

Network Shared Drive Encrypted by CryptoWall? How to Track Down the Infecte...

There is a lot of information on the web about preventing and recovering from CryptoWall or ransomware attacks in enterprise environments, but most don’t answer this basic question...

Nov 17, 2015

By Matt Mellen

Cybersecurity

Learn All About CryptoWall 3 and the Cyber Threat Alliance

Recent research from the Cyber Threat Alliance yielded a breakthrough in analyzing CryptoWall, a worldwide cybersecurity threat that has caused an estimated $325 million in damages...

Nov 06, 2015

By Chad Berndtson

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