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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
Ariana Mirian, cofounder of startup Beesafe, joins Dennis to talk about the mechanics of online romance and finance scams, how the scammers draw in victims over weeks or months, and why user awareness isn’t the complete solution to the problem.
This week we dig deep into the Vercel intrusion that emerged last weekend, how it happened, what the response was, and what the downstream effects may be for defenders. Then we talk about CISA’s bizarre delayed response to the Axios npm compromise and what it signals about the agency’s capabilities going forward.
The three newly added bugs are CVE-2026-20122, CVE-2026-20128, and CVE-2026-20133, the last of which had not been identified in active attacks before.
The incident came to light on Sunday and the company says it has brought in an incident response provider to investigate the intrusion. Details of the intrusion are scant at this point.
It’s been A WEEK. Security news never sleeps, and neither does AI, so Dennis and Lindsey dive into all of the storylines coming from the Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing announcements, how organizations will deal with the coming flood of CVEs and patches, NIST’s decision to only enrich specific CVEs going forward, and what could possibly be next on […]
The campaign targets high-value individuals and organizations in the cryptocurrency, digital assets, and finance sectors.
