ALPR Technology Continues to Raise Privacy Concerns
In a similar vain to privacy concerns raised over Ring doorbells, an Atlanta-based startup has rolled out its own network of smart surveillance cameras across... Read More
Cyber Threats
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.
First Public RCE PoC Exploit for Windows DNS SIGRed
A working proof-of-concept exploit is now publicly available for the critical SIGRed Windows DNS Server remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. Microsoft issued security updates to... Read More
ObliqueRAT Uses Innocuous Images to Hide Malicious Payloads
It’s been discovered that the ObliqueRAT malware is now utilizing seemingly-innocent image files to hide its malicious payloads that are now hidden on compromised websites.... Read More
Researchers Discover Fourth Malware Tied to Threat Actors Responsible for SolarWinds Attack
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
US Government Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Local Exchange Servers
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
Nvidia’s Anti-Cryptomining GPU Chip Not as Successful as Promised
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
Mozilla’s Total Cookie Protection Feature Blocks Invasive, Cross-Site Tracking
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
Malicious Firefox Extension Allows Hackers to Take Control of Gmail Accounts
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
Teenage White Hat Hacker Discovers PII-Exposing Flaw in Health-Department Website
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
Critical Flaw in Cisco Systems Could Allow Attackers to Bypass Authentication
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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