Posts created by: Rick Howard

Unit 42’s Don’t Panic Podcast returns with season 3.

This Unit 42 blog provides an update on the threat situation surrounding attacks using the Petya Ransomware which are impacting organizations in Ukraine and other parts of Europe.

This Unit 42 blog provides an update on the threat situation surrounding the WanaCrypt0r ransomware attacks. It also well as information on the adversary playbook this attack uses.

Executive Summary The Palo Alto Networks vision for threat information sharing is that cybersecurity vendors should share the intelligence that they all individually collect with each other and with whomever else has the capacity to consume it. In that way, each vendor can build more innovative products with that superset of intelligence and better protect their

This is the third and final installment of my blog series differentiating the various kinds of cyber adversaries who are looking to gain access to enterprise and government networks. Follow these links to get to Part 1 and Part 2.

In my previous post, I wrote of my distaste for how loosely the cybersecurity community uses terms like cyber terrorism and cyber crime.  There are different motivations driving those who would try to gain unauthorized entry into a corporate network. So let’s take a look at who they are and what drives them to do

This is a pet peeve of mine, but when I hear somebody from the cybersecurity community refer to a web-defacement as cyber warfare, my soul dies a little. Really? A hacktivist converts the corporate logo on a company web site into a Guy Fawkes mask and it’s cyber warfare? Hardly. A criminal steals customer credit

This has been a fun week. We have not had a significant cyber event like this – something that affects just about everybody on the Internet — since the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability of 2008. Everybody I know has been scrambling to understand what it means to their organization, to their business and to their immediate