Five Months To Patch A VPN? Splendid.

Attackers stroll through unpatched Palo Alto VPNs because updates are too hard. Five months of ignored patches is just another Tuesday in IT.

Source: Infosecurity Magazine

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Severity: High Mood: Frustrating

Here we go again, as corporate networks running PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access discover that ignoring five-month-old patches has consequences. Threat researchers spotted gangs like Qilin casually bypassing authentication into unpatched appliances because apparently federal remediation directives are purely optional reading. One could protect corporate networks by actually applying the five-month-old patches to these exposed gateways, but why ruin the tradition of doing nothing?

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