Colonial Pipeline Attack Puts DarkSide Ransomware Under Scrutiny
The attack on Colonial Pipeline has focused the attention of the FBI and White House on the DarkSide ransomware developers and...
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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
DarkSide Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline a Worrying Precedent
The DarkSide ransomware hit the Colonial Pipeline on Friday, forcing the company to take its main distribution lines offline to...
Decipher Podcast: Peter Baker
Dennis Fisher talks with Peter Baker, the founding brand designer at Duo and the man behind the Decipher brand, about his...
Naikon APT Deploys New Nebulae Backdoor
The Naikon APT group attributed to China has been using a new backdoor known as Nebulae in attacks against military organizations in Asia.
Supply Chain Attack Hits Passwordstate Password Manager
An attacker was able to compromise the update mechanism for the Click Studios Passwordstate password manager and insert a malicious DLL that harvested victims' usernames and passwords.
Researchers Find New Chunk of SolarWinds Attackers’ Infrastructure
Researchers from RiskIQ have identified 18 additional C2 servers used by the APT29 attackers in their operation against SolarWinds and its customers.
CISA Finds New Attacker Using Supernova Malware on SolarWinds Orion
CISA investigated an enterprise intrusion in which the attacker had legitimate credentials for the Pulse Secure VPN and then deployed the Supernova malware on a SolarWinds Orion instance.
The Hacker Movie Awards
It's Oscars season, so to celebrate the good, the bad, and the terrible in hacker movies, Zoe Lindsey, Pete Baker, and Dennis Fisher convene to hand out some fake awards for fake hacking.