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: Matt Donahue and Nick Selby
Dennis Fisher talks with Mat Donahue, a former FBI counterterrorism specialist and founder and CEO of Kodex, and Nick Selby, a technologist and law enforcement officer, about the challenges organizations face when responding to data requests from law enforcement agencies and how CISOs and legal teams can address them.
Cisco Releases Update for IOS XE Flaws
Cisco has released an update for two zero days in IOS XE that attackers have been exploiting in the wild.
U.S., European Authorities Disrupt Ragnar Locker Ransomware Operation
Law enforcement agencies from Europe and the U.S. seized the infrastructure and arrested alleged members of the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang this week.
State Actors Targeting WinRAR Flaw in Multiple Campaigns
APT groups from Russia and China are targeting CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR in multiple campaigns, deploying custom and commodity malware.
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw Affects All Major Web Servers
A new flaw in HTTP/2 known as Rapid Reset has enabled threat actors to launch massive DDoS attacks and is believed to affect all modern web servers.