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
Code Execution Flaws Found in F5 BIG-IP Appliances
Rapid7 researchers discovered two code execution flaws in several versions of the F5 BIG-IP appliances.
Decipher Podcast: Dan Lorenc
Dan Lorenc, CEO and founder of Chainguard, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about supply chain security, asset inventory, Sigstore, and the challenges of helping developers write more secure code.
Resilience Seen as a Key to Critical Infrastructure Security
Attackers are focusing their attention on critical infrastructure operators, and building resilience into those networks is a key to defending them, experts say.
GitHub Launches Private Vulnerability Reporting
GitHub has launched a new feature that enables researchers to privately report vulnerabilities to repository maintainers.
Lenovo Patches BIOS Flaws That Lead to Secure Boot Modification
Lenovo has patched three vulnerabilities in the BIOS in many of its laptops that could allow an attacker to modify the secure boot process.