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
Attackers Target Home Routers With DNS-Changing Hack
Attackers are compromising home routers and changing the DNS settings to redirect victims to a site serving malware.
APT41 Campaign Targeted Companies in 20 Countries
APT41, an attack group connected to China, has been running a broad campaign using public exploits and flaws to target companies in 20 countries.
Buffer Overflow in Memcached Fixed
A buffer overflow in the memcached tool has been patched after a public disclosure of the details and proof-of-concept exploit code.
Decipher Podcast: Wade Baker and David Severski
Wade Baker and David Severski of the Cyentia Institute join Dennis Fisher to discuss the findings from their new Information Risk Insights Study into the risk and cost of security breaches across industries.
Unpatched Windows Flaws Under Active Attack
Two new Windows vulnerabilities related to the Adobe Type Manager library are being exploited in targeted attacks.