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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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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

OpenText Fixes RCE Flaws in Extended ECM

OpenText has fixed two remote code execution vulnerabilities in its Extended ECM content management server.

Vulnerability

Attackers Exploiting ManageEngine CVE-2022-47966 Flaw

Active exploitation of the CVE-2022-47966 ManageEngine flaw is underway.

Vulnerability, Exploit

U.S. Arrests Alleged Operator of Bitzlato Crypto Exchange

U.S. authorities have arrested Anatoly Legkodymov, the Russian alleged operator of the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange, which they say was a major hub for cybercriminal activity.

Cryptocurrency, Russia

LNK Files Link Bumblebee With Qakbot, IcedID Malware

By looking at metadata in LNK files in recent campaigns, Talos researchers have linked the Bumblebee malware with the Qakbot and IcedID malware groups.

Malware