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.
Monday, May 10th, 2021
An SQL-injection vulnerability discovered in a WordPress plugin called “Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk” could expose user emails, passwords, credit-card data, and other sensitive... Read More
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
Peleton, a manufacturer and distributer of workout machines that can live-stream workout routines, is under fire after the discovery that their API was leaking their... Read More
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
Three new malware strains have been discovered being used in two global, financial phishing attacks that targeted at least 50 organizations this past December. The... Read More
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
Maryland based Federal law enforcement officers shut down a fraudulent website targeting immigrant-communities that claimed to be for a company developing a Covid-19 vaccine. Instead,... Read More
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
This past Tuesday, researchers at Trend Micro have reported a new information stealer, named “Panda Spreader,” that is being spread through a worldwide spam campaign.... Read More
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Monday, May 3rd, 2021
An information-disclosure security vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel, which can be exploited to expose information in the kernel stack memory of vulnerable... Read More
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Saturday, May 1st, 2021
Researchers at Cofense have discovered a phishing campaign in which hackers don a Microsoft Office SharePoint disguise and are able to successfully bypass security email... Read More
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Saturday, May 1st, 2021
More than 60 software companies, government agencies, cybersecurity vendors, financial services companies, nonprofits and academic institutions have joined together to form a coalition to fight... Read More
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Friday, April 30th, 2021
In a follow up to last week’s post regarding the growing cyber threat brought upon by the growing usage of QR codes, codes used by... Read More
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Monday, April 26th, 2021
Threat Actors Utilizing Telegram Platform to Spread “ToxicEye” Malware Hackers are leveraging the popular Telegram messaging app by embedding its code inside a remote access... Read More
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