Cyber threats refer to the actors and actions attempting to execute successful cyber attacks aimed at gaining unauthorized access, damaging, disrupting, or stealing information technology assets, computer networks, intellectual property, personally identifiable information, or any other form of sensitive data. Cyber threats can originate from within an organization by trusted users or from outside the organization by external malicious actors. This page provides information on some of the cyber threats that Atlas Cybersecurity is tracking.
Saturday, March 6th, 2021
FireEye researchers have discovered a new malware, Sunshuttle, which they believe to be a “sophisticated second-stage backdoor” on the servers of an organization compromised by... Read More
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Friday, March 5th, 2021
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it had spotted multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises version of Microsoft Exchange Server and as a... Read More
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
Nvidia, known for its gaming-friendly GPUs, announced that the upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 chipset includes efforts to protect against cryptomining, but experts remain unconvinced at... Read More
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
Mozilla has released its latest version of the Firefox web-browser, Firefox 86, which comes with new privacy protections to guard against cross-site cookie tracking, as... Read More
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
A newly discovered, malicious Firefox extension, FriarFox, is being used to take control of victims’ Gmail accounts. The threat campaign, first observed in January of... Read More
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
A teenaged ethical hacker discovered a flawed endpoint associated with a health-department website in the state of Bengal, which exposed personally identifiable information related to... Read More
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
One of three critical flaws fixed by Cisco this week, the flaw exists in Cisco Systems’ intersite policy manager software and could allow a remote... Read More
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
U.S. law enforcement arrested six “ringleaders” of a Ghana-based cybercriminal enterprise, who had allegedly launched a slew of money-stealing scams dating back to 2013 that... Read More
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Kia Motors America has thus far publicly acknowledged an “extended system outage,” but ransomware gang, DoppelPaymer, claims it has encrypted the company’s files in a... Read More
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
Attackers Exploit SDK Bug to Spy on Users Across Dating and Healthcare Apps Apps like eHarmony and MeetMe are affected by a flaw in the... Read More
Cyber Threats, News, News & Media