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Dennis Fisher

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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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U.S. Takes Down Hive Ransomware Infrastructure

The FBI and international alw enforcement agencies have taken down the Hive ransomware infrastructure.

Ransomware

Google Cracks Down on Dragonbridge Pro-China Information Operation

Google has disrupted more than 50,000 accounts linked to the Dragonbridge pro-China information operation in the last year.

China

Attacker Stole GoTo Customer Backups and Encryption Key

GoTo says an attacker stole some encrypted customer backups as well as an encryption key for some of those databases.

Lastpass, Data Breach

North Korean Attackers TA444 Shift Tactics

The TA444 threat group has changed its tactics in recent weeks, moving to new delivery methods and payloads.

North Korea

FBI Says Lazarus Group Behind $100 Million Harmony Bridge Heist

The FBI says the North Korean threat actor Lazarus Group is responsible for the theft of $100 million in cryptocurrency from Harmony Horizon Bridge in June.

Cryptocurrency, Fbi, North Korea