Colonial Pipeline CEO Says Ransom Payment ‘Right Thing to Do’ For Country
The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline and the payment of the ransom to restore the company's network was the right thing to do...
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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
U.S. Seizes $2.3 Million From DarkSide Actors Who Targeted Colonial Pipeline
The Department of Justice seized $2.3 million in Bitcoin that was part of the ransom that Colonial Pipeline paid to DarkSide...
Colonial Pipeline Attack Puts DarkSide Ransomware Under Scrutiny
The attack on Colonial Pipeline has focused the attention of the FBI and White House on the DarkSide ransomware developers and...
Naikon APT Deploys New Nebulae Backdoor
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Supply Chain Attack Hits Passwordstate Password Manager
An attacker was able to compromise the update mechanism for the Click Studios Passwordstate password manager and insert a malicious DLL that harvested victims' usernames and passwords.
Researchers Find New Chunk of SolarWinds Attackers’ Infrastructure
Researchers from RiskIQ have identified 18 additional C2 servers used by the APT29 attackers in their operation against SolarWinds and its customers.
The Hacker Movie Awards
It's Oscars season, so to celebrate the good, the bad, and the terrible in hacker movies, Zoe Lindsey, Pete Baker, and Dennis Fisher convene to hand out some fake awards for fake hacking.
CISA Finds New Attacker Using Supernova Malware on SolarWinds Orion
CISA investigated an enterprise intrusion in which the attacker had legitimate credentials for the Pulse Secure VPN and then deployed the Supernova malware on a SolarWinds Orion instance.