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Palo Alto Networks

US cybersecurity company

Security · Ransomware groups spent months exploiting Palo Alto firewall bug, Unit 42 warns

Multiple ransomware groups, including Qilin, Inc and Settra, have been exploiting a high-severity authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS firewall software for months, the vendor's incident response unit says, gaining initial access to corporate networks, bypassing multi-factor authentication and, in some cases, moving directly into the virtualisation layer to disable security controls.