Dennis Fisher

Editor in Chief

Dennis 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

Data Breach

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

Ransomware

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.

Microsoft Russia

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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YoroTrooper Group Targets European, CIS Countries in Cyberespionage Campaigns

The newly identified YoroTrooper group is targeting embassies and government agencies in European and Commonwealth of Independent States countries in phishing campaigns.

APT

Decipher Podcast: Courtney Nash Returns

Courtney Nash joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the 2022 VOID Report on incidents, why mean time to resolve is no longer a meaningful metric, whether the duration of an incident matters, and how organizations can get better at responding to an analyzing incidents.

Podcast

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