Mike Scott, Author at Palo Alto Networks Blog

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Extending AutoFocus Threat Intelligence With New Tag Types

In previous posts we have discussed how AutoFocus accelerates the analysis, hunting, and incident response workflows by providing full context for threat events seen on your network, as well as high-level visibility …

Jun 17, 2016

By Mike Scott

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

New Wekby Attacks Use DNS Requests As Command and Control Mechanism

We have observed an attack led by the APT group Wekby targeting a US-based organization in recent weeks. Wekby is a group that has been active for a number of years, targeting …

May 24, 2016

By Josh Grunzweig, Mike Scott and Bryan Lee

Malware, Unit 42

Operation Ke3chang Resurfaces With New TidePool Malware

Introduction Little has been published on the threat actors responsible for Operation Ke3chang since the report was released more than two years ago. However, Unit 42 has recently discovered the actors have …

May 22, 2016

By Micah Yates, Mike Scott, Brandon Levene, Jen Miller-Osborn and Tom Keigher

Malware, Unit 42

New Poison Ivy RAT Variant Targets Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists

Malware writers have always sought to develop feature-rich, easy to use tools that are also somewhat hard to detect via both host- and network-based detection systems. For many years, one of the …

Apr 21, 2016

By Micah Yates, Mike Scott, Brandon Levene and Jen Miller-Osborn

Unit 42

Attack Campaign on the Government of Thailand Delivers Bookworm Trojan

Unit 42 recently published a blog on a newly identified Trojan called Bookworm, which discussed the architecture and capabilities of the malware and alluded to Thailand being the focus of the threat …

Nov 24, 2015

By Robert Falcone, Mike Scott and Juan Cortes

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Jun 17, 2016

By Mike Scott

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

We have observed an attack led by the APT group Wekby targeting a US-based organization in recent weeks. Wekby is a group that has been active for a number of years, targeting …

Malware, Unit 42

Malware writers have always sought to develop feature-rich, easy to use tools that are also somewhat hard to detect via both host- and network-based detection systems. For many years, one of the …

Unit 42

Mike Scott

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Extending AutoFocus Threat Intelligence With New Tag Types

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

New Wekby Attacks Use DNS Requests As Command and Control Mechanism

Malware, Unit 42

Operation Ke3chang Resurfaces With New TidePool Malware

Malware, Unit 42

New Poison Ivy RAT Variant Targets Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists

Unit 42

Attack Campaign on the Government of Thailand Delivers Bookworm Trojan

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Extending AutoFocus Threat Intelligence With New Tag Types

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

New Wekby Attacks Use DNS Requests As Command and Control Mechanism

Malware, Unit 42

Operation Ke3chang Resurfaces With New TidePool Malware

Malware, Unit 42

New Poison Ivy RAT Variant Targets Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists

Unit 42

Attack Campaign on the Government of Thailand Delivers Bookworm Trojan

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