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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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Decipher Podcast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade

Dennis Fisher talks with Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, senior director at SentinelLabs, about the investigation into the new Metador APT group that he and his colleagues unveiled at LabsCon recently.

Podcast

Bumblebee Loader Evolves to Drop New Payloads

The Bumblebee malware loader is delivering separate payloads for different machines and using new evasion techniques.

Malware

Attackers Exploiting Two Microsoft Exchange Zero Days

Attackers are exploiting two new Microsoft Exchange zero days ( CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082) in the wild. Microsoft is working on a patch.

Microsoft, Zero Day

Lazarus Group Affiliate Uses Trojanized Open Source Apps in New Campaigns

Zinc, a Lazarus group offshoot, is using trojanized versions of open source apps such as KiTTY and PuTTY in a new phishing campaign.

North Korea, Microsoft

New Chaos Malware Targets Windows and Linux Devices

A new piece of malware known as Chaos that is built for Windows and Linux systems is infecting home routers, enterprise servers, and other devices and launching DDoS attacks.

Malware, Botnet, China