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.
Unit 42 researchers have been monitoring malware actors using njRAT, also known as Bladabindi, a notorious Remote Access Trojan (RAT), to download and deliver malicious... Read More
Cybersecurity firm FireEye has been hit with what their CEO Kevin Mandia described as a “highly targeted cyberattack.” The threat actor was able to target... Read More
Throughout most of 2020, threat actors have taken advantage of the panic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, either through the use of COVID-19-themed phishing attacks,... Read More
Four critical flaws, CVE-2020-6016, CVE-2020-6017, CVE-2020-6018 and CVE-2020-6019, were found to be exploitable in the popular Steam online gaming platform. If exploited, these flaws could... Read More
Since January of this year, threat actors have been targeting the 5 million worldwide, internet-facing, MySQL servers with a ransomware dubbed PLEASE_READ_ME by researchers. The... Read More
First discovered in 2012, MoleRats is part of the Gaza Cybergang, an Arabic speaking, politically motivated collective of interrelated threat groups actively targeting the Middle... Read More
Scammers have taken to impersonating an employee’s organization’s human resources department in phishing emails crafted to appear as internal ‘back to work’ company memos. It’s... Read More
As the world continues to be subject to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as we grow closer and closer to a vaccine, a sophisticated, global phishing... Read More
Previously disclosed on April 6, 2020, CVE-2020-8913 is a local, arbitrary code execution issue in the SplitCombat.install endpoint in Android’s Play Core Library. The flaw... Read More
Kmart, an American department store chain, has been the latest victim of an Egregor ransomware attack. First discovered in September of 2020, Egregor is an... Read More
58% of Malware Attack Victims
Are Categorized As Small Businesses..
