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
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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
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.
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
Decipher Podcast: Larry Cashdollar
Larry Cashdollar, a senior security researcher at Akamai, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about 20 years of vulnerability research and the many different ways that things can go sideways.
Universal Health Services Network Knocked Offline
A security incident at Universal Health Services has taken the network of the large health system offline.
LokiBot Activity Spikes, CISA Warns
CISA alerted administrators that activity from the LokiBot information stealing trojan has been increasingly sharply since July.
SAFE DATA Act Joins Crowded Field of Privacy Bills
The SAFE DATA Act is the latest attempt to pass a national privacy law, but it relies on notice-and-consent and does not apply to federal agencies.
Tech, Privacy Groups Urge Senators to Oppose EARN IT Act
A large coalition of privacy and civil liberty groups have sent a letter urging senators to oppose the EARN IT Act.