1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole

PAN-PAN! Intruders inject web shell backdoors, crypto-coin miners, more

Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bugs. The intruders were able to deploy web-accessible backdoors to remotely control the equipment as well as cryptocurrency miners and other malware.…