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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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
UK Police Take Down LabHost Phishing Service
Europol and a collection of UK law enforcement agencies have disrupted the LabHost phishing platform, which targeted victims
3 Things We Still Don’t Know About the XZ Backdoor
The XZ Utils backdoor was a very subtle operation that took several years to pull off, and while some of the technical details are
Java Crypto Bug Allows Forging of Signatures, Certificates
A critical bug in Java's implementation of ECDSA (CVE-2022-21449) can allow an attacker to forge a signature or certificate to deliver virtually any payload.
CISA: Lazarus APT Targeting Blockchain Orgs With TraderTraitor Malware
The Lazarus APT group is targeting cryptocurrency and blockchain organizations with malware called TraderTraitor, warns the U.S. government.
Attackers Used Stolen OAuth Tokens to Download Private GitHub Repositories
A threat actor used stole OAuth tokens for third-party integrators Heroku and Travis-CI to access and download private GitHub repositories belonging to dozens of companies.
Decipher Podcast: Martin Roesch
Martin Roesch, CEO of Netography and creator of Snort and former CEO of Sourcefire, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about why he decided to come out of retirement and what the big challenges are for security right now.
Meta Disrupts Two Iranian Threat Groups
Meta has disrupted the operations of two Iranian threat actors, including UNC788 and a previously unidentified group, that were using the company's platforms to target a wide range of victims.