{"id":241327,"date":"2026-07-22T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/qilin-ransomware-attackers-exploit-panos-authentication-bypass-for-initial-access"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:53:20","slug":"qilin-ransomware-attackers-exploit-panos-authentication-bypass-for-initial-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/qilin-ransomware-attackers-exploit-panos-authentication-bypass-for-initial-access","title":{"rendered":"Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PANOS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qilin-ransomware-attackers-exploit-panos-authentication-bypass-for-initial-access2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attackers exploit PAN-OS CVE-2026\u20130257 to deploy Qilin ransomware, with intrusions ranging from rapid encryption to data theft and double extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers exploit PAN-OS CVE-2026\u20130257 to deploy Qilin ransomware, with intrusions ranging from rapid encryption to data theft and double extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}