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
Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Flaw
A wave of ransomware attacks is targeting VMware ESXi servers that are vulnerable to CVE-2021-21974.
Linux Variant of Cl0p Ransomware Emerges
A Linux version of the Cl0p ransomware has been identified, but it has a flaw in its encryption routine that allowed researchers to build a decryptor for it.
Atlassian Patches Critical Flaw in Jira
Atlassian has fixed a critical authentication bypass flaw in Jira Service Management.
Decipher Podcast: Michelle Finneran Dennedy
Michelle Finneran Dennedy, co-founder of Privacy Code and co-author of The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her new startup, her path from studying psychology to becoming the first chief privacy officer at Sun and Cisco, and what everyone gets wrong about privacy.
The Bigger the Party, the Bigger the Risks
New data compiled by Cyentia Institute and SecurityScorecard shows that 98 percent of organizations have a direct relationship with a company that has been breached recently.