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Thousands of Palo Alto Networks Firewalls Compromised This Week After Critical Security Hole

Palo Alto Networks boasts 70,000 customers in 150 countries, including 85% of the Fortune 500. But this week "thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bug," reports the Register: The intruders were able to deploy web-accessi...

The Register has asked for clarification, including how many compromised devices Palo Alto Networks is aware of, and will update this story if and when we hear back from the vendor. Rumors started swirling last week about a critical security hole in Palo Alto Networks appliances that allowed remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on devices. The two can be chained together to allow remote code execution(RCE) against the PAN-OS management interface... once the attackers break in, they are using this access to deploy web shells, Sliver implants, and/or crypto miners, according to Wiz threat researchers.

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