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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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Pair of Serious Flaws Patched in BIND 9

A pair of serious vulnerabilities have been fixed in the widely deployed BIND 9 DNS server.

DNS

New Threat Group Targets Middle Eastern Telcos

A new attack group named ShroudedSnooper is targeting telecom providers in Middle Eastern countries with custom tools called HTTPSnoop and PipeSnoop.

Malware

Iranian Threat Group Targets Cloud With Password Spraying Attacks

An Iran state-backed group called Peach Sandstorm is using password spraying attacks to target cloud environments in organizations across many industries.

Microsoft, Iran

Microsoft Warns of Teams-Based Phishing Campaign

Microsoft is warning enterprises about a recent Teams-based phishing campaign operated by a developing thrat group known as Storm-0342.

Microsoft, Phishing

Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Reader Zero Day

Adobe is warning Acrobat and Acrobat Reader users about an actively exploited vulnerability in those products.

Adobe