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Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering is a cloud-delivered security service that goes beyond traditional web filtering to stop known, unknown, and highly evasive web-based threats in real time. Powered by inline machine learning and AI, it provides deep visibility into web traffic and blocks malicious, risky, and inappropriate content before it can impact users or data. With continuous updates from the industry’s largest threat intelligence network, it helps organizations stay protected against evolving phishing, malware, and zero-day web attacks.

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K.Graves221717 10-17-2025	AWS sites categorized as "unknown" in URL filtering logs and blocked Good morning, I'm having an issue where AWS sites like .amazonaws.com and .awsglobalaccelerator.com are getting regularly categorized as "unknown"... — Read more posted in Advanced URL Filtering Discussions	69	0
tbolatiwa 10-16-2025	Welcome to the Advanced URL Filtering Discussion Area! Welcome to the Advanced URL Filtering Discussion Area. This is your space to explore, share, and discuss how Advanced URL Filtering, powered by Precis... — Read more posted in Advanced URL Filtering Discussions	61	0

Blogs

New URL Filtering Category: File-Converter

08-29-2025 — New URL Filtering Category: File-Converter We intend to introduce a new category called “File-Converter” under Advanced URL Filtering. ACTION: An action may be required. The “file-converter” category action is currently set to ALERT only for the default profile. If you have multiple URL Filt... — Read more

Labels: Advanced URL Filtering Benign URL category PAN-OS URL Filtering
42396 1 by tuvu01 in Community Blogs

Stopping AI-Powered Threats: Palo Alto Networks Detects LLM-Generated Attacks in Real-Time

03-19-2025 — As AI-driven threats evolve, so must cybersecurity defenses. Palo Alto Networks introduces LLM-Generated Attacks Detection, an advanced security capability designed to counter threats created using large language models (LLMs). Cybercriminals are ... — Read more

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Palo Alto Networks Enhances AURL with New HTTP Refresh Header-based Phishing Detector

03-12-2025 — HTTP Refresh Header-based phishing is a technique used by attackers to deliver malicious web pages. Unlike traditional phishing attacks that rely on HTML content, these attacks embed malicious links in the Refresh header of the server response. Th... — Read more

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Unmasking the Threat: How Palo Alto Networks Detects Deepfake Phishing and Scams

03-06-2025 — Attackers are using deepfake technology to create convincing phishing scams by impersonating trusted individuals, such as CEOs, colleagues, and celebrities. With AI-powered lip-syncing, face-swapping, and voice cloning, they trick victims into cli... — Read more

Labels: Advanced URL Filtering AURL Filtering
2017 1 by tuvu01 in Community Blogs

Announcing VM-Series on AWS Connected Mobility Solutions (CMS) to Protect Your Connected Vehicles

12-19-2024 — Protect what drives you – starting today with VM-Series on AWS CMS — Read more

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