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Palo Alto Networks warns hackers are breaking into its customers’ firewalls — again

Hackers have compromised potentially thousands of Palo Alto customers by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities

Malicious hackers have compromised potentially thousands of organizations by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities found in widely used software made by cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks. Palo Alto Networks says attackers are now using their own functional exploit chaining the two flaws together to target a “limited number of device management web interfaces” exposed to the internet. According to the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the internet for vulnerability exploitation, hackers have already compromised more than 2,000 affected Palo Alto Networks firewalls by leveraging the two recently patched flaws.

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