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
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Dennis Fisher
Editor in ChiefDennis 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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Featured Articles
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
3 Things We Still Don’t Know About the XZ Backdoor
The XZ Utils backdoor was a very subtle operation that took several years to pull off, and while some of the technical details are
Decipher Podcast: LockBit Takedown
Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch discuss the disruption of the LockBit ransomware operation by the FBI, Europol, and UK authorities, what it means for victims, and how it fits into the government's larger strategy to target cybercrime groups.
The Creeping Threat of Security Debt
A new study shows that more than 70 percent of organizations have applications with vulnerabilities that are more than a year old, and nearly 50 percent have critical bugs that old.
QNAP Fixes Pair of Command Injection Flaws
QNAP has patched two command injection flaws in several versions of its QTS and QuTS hero firmware.
Fortinet Warns of Zero Day in FortiOS
Fortinet is urging customers to patch an actively exploited flaw (CVE-2024-21762) in many versions of its FortiOS software.
Q&A: Gary McGraw
Software security pioneer and AI expert Gary McGraw talks to Dennis Fisher about the risks of black box LLMs in AI and the need for regulation.