{"id":10434,"date":"2026-10-20T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/qilin-and-inc-ransomware-groups-exploit-palo-alto-networks-flaw-to-bypass-mfa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:12:20","slug":"qilin-and-inc-ransomware-groups-exploit-palo-alto-networks-flaw-to-bypass-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/qilin-and-inc-ransomware-groups-exploit-palo-alto-networks-flaw-to-bypass-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bPalo Alto Networks has disclosed that it&#8217;s continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting\u00a0 PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors.<\/p>\n<p>The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched by Palo Alto Networks in May 2026 and was\u00a0Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it&#8217;s continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting\u00a0 PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors.<\/p>\n<p>The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched by Palo Alto Networks in May 2026 and was\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bPalo Alto Networks has disclosed that it&#8217;s continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting\u00a0 PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched by Palo Alto&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/qilin-and-inc-ransomware-groups-exploit-palo-alto-networks-flaw-to-bypass-mfa\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}