Russia Arrests Alleged REvil Ransomware Members at U.S. Urging
The Russian FSB has arrested 14 alleged members of the REvil ransomware group after U.S. officials urged the country to move...
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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
Log4j Attacks Spread as State Actors Target Bug
State actors from China, Iran, North Korea and other countries are targeting the Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) flaw.
Emotet Shifts Gears, Drops Cobalt Strike Directly
New versions of Emotet have been dropping Cobalt Strike beacons directly, rather than relying on intermediate payloads such as...
Thirty Minutes Or Less: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part Three
The L0pht hacker group testified before the Senate in 1998 and told the lawmakers they could take down the Internet in 30 minutes or less because of a vulnerability in the BGP protocol.
The Wide World of Cryptocurrency Crime
Cryptocurrency crime is expanding beyond ransomware to in-browser mining and nation-state attacks.
The Merger of Hacking and Disinformation
Hacking and disinformation have merged to become the favored methods of political parties, nations, and individual attackers.
‘Microsoft Was Freaking Out‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 2
As the L0pht hacker group matured new members like Mudge and Dildog joined and the group began publishing security advisories on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1
Born from the Boston BBS scene of the 1980s, the L0pht emerged in the 1990s as one of the more influential hacker groups ever and helped spawn the security industry as we know it today.