Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June

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What happened

A curated security-news feed covering active exploitation of network and VPN appliances, ransomware and disruptive cyberattacks, major data breaches, critical virtualization flaws, weak authentication, supply-chain and SaaS incidents, AI prompt injection and governance risks, spyware, and regulatory developments. The most urgent items involve in-the-wild zero-day exploitation affecting Cisco and Ivanti products, ransomware activity targeting Palo Alto firewall systems, a critical Linux KVM guest-to-host escape, and attacks disrupting retail, recruitment, government, and court operations.

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