Unit 42

This Malware Turns off Your Cloud Security Tools

A new malware sample "captured" and analysed by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has adopted code to uninstall five different cloud…

Notorious Bank Hackers “Cobalt/Carbanak” Still Active 6 Months after “Mastermind”‘s Arrest

Six months after "Denis K", the Ukrainian "mastermind" of global bank hacking group Cobalt/Carbanak was arrested in Spain's Alicante following…

Fake Adobe Flash Malware Contains Update and Cryptocurrency Miner

Threat actors are hiding cryptocurrency mining malware in fake Adobe Flash updates that actually update Flash to the current version.…

Vulnerability Exploit Trends and Patterns Revealed by Unit 42

The United States is the number one hosting country for malicious domains, while also the leading source of exploit kits,…

Monero’s Money Mining Malicious Malware Monopoly  

Palo Alto Networks malware researcher Josh Grunzweig has identified a massive 470,000 unique malware samples that hijack computers to mine…