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Jeff Burt

2026 marks Jeff Burt's 40th year in journalism, including more than two decades reporting on the technology industry. He spent 16-plus years at eWEEK (2000–2017), where he covered data center infrastructure, networking, collaboration technology, cloud computing, processors, PCs, and — later — AI, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, eventually serving as Senior Editor and helping oversee the eWEEK Labs analyst group. Since 2017 he has worked as a freelance technology journalist and as Senior Editor at The Next Platform, covering HPC, supercomputing, hyperscale and enterprise computing, processors, and systems software. His byline has also appeared at The Register, The New Stack, eSecurity Planet, Enterprise Storage Forum, Enterprise Networking Planet, Channel Insider, Channel Futures, ITPro Today, and MSSP Alert, spanning enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, and emerging compute technologies. Before moving into technology reporting, Jeff spent 14 years covering courts, crime, politics, and environmental issues for general-circulation newspapers in Massachusetts. He holds a B.A. in Public Affairs/Journalism from Keene State College. Jeff is a contributing author at Security Boulevard, DevOps.com, and Techstrong.ai, where he covers cybersecurity threats including ransomware and nation-state hacking groups, data breaches, DOJ/law enforcement actions, and software supply chain attacks.

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North Korean Bad Actor’s Fake Job Offer Scam Targets Developers

Freelance developers around the world are being targeted by North Korean bad actors posing as job recruiters who as part of the fake application process entice them to run software jobs that actually compromise their systems with infostealer malware.

Jeff Burt · Feb 25, 2025
DataOps

North Korea’s Lazarus Group Targets Developers, Supply Chain

North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group is using an advanced malicious implant to target cryptocurrency wallets and spreading it via legitimate GitHub profile and possibly through npm packages. The ongoing campaign, dubbed Operation Marstech Mayhem, is the example of a threat group using open-source code repositories like GitHub, npm, and Python Package Index (PyPI) in software supply […]

Jeff Burt · Feb 17, 2025
Blogs

Typosquat Supply Chain Attack Targets Go Developers

A backdoor that impersonates a widely used database module in the popular Go programming language can give hackers control of infected systems, according to a senior threat intelligence analyst with developer-focused platform provider Socket. The malicious package, which the threat actor first published in November 2021 and remains in the Go Module Proxy, typosquats the […]

Jeff Burt · Feb 5, 2025
DevOps Practice

CISA Pushes Steps to Better Secure Software and Product Designs

The country’s top cybersecurity agency is urging developers to take steps to ensure the software they’re building and the products they roll out are secure and protect end users. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week rolled out a series of recommendations that it wants businesses and critical infrastructure organizations to adopt to […]

Jeff Burt · Jan 10, 2025
AI

White House to Spend $11 Million to Study Open Source Software Use

Hardening the security around open source software has been a key part of the White House’s larger cybersecurity efforts since President Biden released his executive order for improving the United States’ security posture in May 2021, only months after taking office. Now the Biden Administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are putting $11 […]

Jeff Burt · Aug 16, 2024
Blogs

DARPA Turns to AI to Help Turn C and C++ Code Into Rust

DARPA will lean on emerging AI capabilities to deal with the costly and time-consuming challenge of rewriting C and C++ code to Rust in a move designed to meet the push for federal agencies and private organizations to adopt memory-safe programming languages.

Jeff Burt · Aug 5, 2024
Blogs

CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash

More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.

Jeff Burt · Jul 26, 2024