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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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TA505 Seen Using P2P RAT in New Operations

The TA505 threat group known for using the Clop ransomware and Dridex trojan is now using a new P2P RAT.

Malware

VirusTotal Adds Collections Feature for Better Collaboration and Context

VirusTotal has added a Collections feature to enable better real-time sharing of IOCs and context around malicious files and URLs.

Malware

Apple Sues NSO Group

Apple has sued NSO Group for allegedly abusing the company's iCloud servers and injuring its customers.

Apple

Imunify360 Flaw Can Lead to Code Execution

CloudLinux's Imunify360 security platform has a severe flaw (CVE-2021-21956) that can lead to remote code execution in some circumstances.

Linux

Attackers Using Suite of Tools to Exploit ManageEngine Flaw

An APT group is using a suite of tools, including KdcSponge, Godzilla, and NGLite, to exploit a known ManageEngine flaw and move laterally.

Cisa