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Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reveals that 86% of major cyber incidents in 2024 caused operational downtime and financial loss, amid escalating threats.

Palo Alto Networks has unveiled its new AI-powered Cortex Cloud platform, enhancing real-time security for cloud environments amid rising cybersecurity threats.

Palo Alto Networks reveals the alarming rise of AI-generated deepfake scams targeting individuals and organisations, with hundreds of implicated domains.

As the 2024 Paris Olympics approach, Palo Alto Networks warns of heightened cybersecurity threats, urging enterprises to adopt robust security measures.

As the 2024 Paris Olympics near, cybersecurity fears rise, with experts warning of imminent threats, including AI-driven DDoS attacks and hacktivism.

Palo Alto Networks' Luisa Genovese discusses the threats facing cloud environments in TechDay's latest IT Jam.

While attacks on diplomatic organisations are common, Cloaked Ursa focuses on the diplomats themselves more than the countries they represent, Unit 42 finds.

With the rate of vulnerability exploitation showing no sign of slowing down up from 147,000 attempts in 2021 to 228,000 in 2022.

The 2023 report shares insights compiled based on findings from Unit 42's incident response work from approximately 1,000 cases throughout the past 18 months.

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response is a new service that can offer continuous 24/7 threat detection, investigation and response.

Report reveals heavy use of software vulnerabilities matching opportunistic behaviour of threat actors who search for weak points.

A new active cyber-espionage campaign has compromised global organisations in the defence, education, energy, healthcare and technology sectors.

Among the most disturbing discoveries: 98% of all IoT device traffic is unencrypted, exposing personal and confidential data on relevant networks.

Palo Alto Networks and Europol have signed an MoU to enhance their joint efforts in combating cybercrime, focusing on sharing threat intelligence and expertise.

A new malware named Xbash, targeting Linux and Windows servers, has ransomware, coinmining, and worm-like self-propagating capabilities.

Unit 42 researchers have uncovered details about how the slippery Nemucod malware has been able to avoid detection.

Researchers have uncovered the ‘Kazuar’ backdoor trojan, which has been detected in espionage campaigns across the globe, Unit 42 reports.

The Android Ewind family has just become a little bigger, after Unit 42 researchers discovered multiple new samples of the family.

'Amnesia', the new IoT botnet variant of 'Tsunami' targets an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability in DVR devices made by TVT Digital.

Unit 42 has provided an inside look at how a malicious spam campaignis using double-zipped Word files to spread ransomware on Windows computers.