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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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CISA Warns of Ongoing Attacks by MuddyWater APT

U.S. agencies are warning that the Iranian-backed APT group MuddyWater is targeting organizations in many industries in North America and elsewhere.

Malware, Iran

Sandworm Group Deploying New Cyclops Blink Malware

The Russian Sandworm threat actor has been deploying a new piece of malware called Cyclops Blink, warns CISA and NSA.

Malware, Russia

GitHub Opens Up Security Advisory Database

GitHub is opening is security Advisory Database to contributions to the community, allowing new research and improvements to help secure the software supply chain.

Github

New FBI Unit Will Focus on Cryptocurrency Exploitation

The FBI is forming a new Virtual Asset Exploitation unit to trace cryptocurrency crimes and ransomware profits.

Government, Ransomware

Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Patched

A remotely exploitable stack overflow (CVE-2022-0435) in the TIPC module of the Linux kernel has been patched.

Linux