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
Apple Fixes Passcode Bypasses in iOS 12.01
In a small update to iOS, Apple has fixed two bugs that allowed someone to bypass the passcode on a locked iPhone.
Hardware Security Keys Go Open Source With Solo
The Solo security keys are based on open-source software and hardware designs and work with both desktop and mobile devices for two-factor authentication.
Russian APTs Turla and Sofacy Sharing Code and Targets
Two Russian-speaking APT teams recently have been seen using shared code and targeting the same organizations.
Toward Dynamic Profiling of Adversaries
Creating static profiles of APT groups has limited value as tactics and tools shift constantly. So some researchers are advocating a move to dynamic profiles of adversaries.
New KRACK Attacks Appear
A research team from KU Leuven in Belgium has disclosed new key reinstallation attacks against WiFi networks.