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Dennis Fisher

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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist who has been covering information security and privacy since 2000.

He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.

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1132 articles by Dennis Fisher

Verizon DBIR: Enterprises Know the Pain of Zero Day Exploits All Too Well

The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report shows a 180 percent increase in the use of vulnerability exploits in breaches from last year, thanks to MOVEit Transfer and other bugs.

Data Breach

Cactus Ransomware Group Targets Qlik Sense Servers

Cactus ransomware actors are targeting Qlik Sense servers with exploits for three separate vulnerabilities in an ongoing campaign.

Ransomware

Change Healthcare Says Attackers Accessed PHI and PII

The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare included the theft of PHI and PII, the company said.

Healthcare

Russian Group Forest Blizzard Deploying GooseEgg Tool to Exploit CVE-2022-38028

A Russian threat group known as Forest Blizzard has been using a custom tool called GooseEgg to exploit a Windows Print Spooler (CVE-2022-38028) for several years.

Microsoft, Russia

UK Police Take Down LabHost Phishing Service

Europol and a collection of UK law enforcement agencies have disrupted the LabHost phishing platform, which targeted victims globally.

Ransomware, Labhost