‘Babuk Locker’ Emerges as one of 2021’s First Ransomware Strains
One of the first ransomware strains unique to 2021 has been discovered. Dubbed ‘Babuk Locker’ by researchers, it has already compromised five companies thus far.... 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.
Recent Ransomware Attacks Utilize Advanced Version of SystemBC as Tor Backdoor
Investigations by researchers into recent ransomware attacks have noted an increase use of the backdoor malware, SystemBC. First seen in 2019, SystemBC is a proxy... Read More
Lazarus Group Leveraged to Improve North Korea’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have released findings that claim that the APT Lazarus Group and other nation-state threat actors are actively trying to steal COVID-19... Read More
New Golang Worm Delivers XMRig Miner on Servers
Early December 2020, researchers discovered a new, previously undetected worm written in the popular Golang, continuing the popular 2020 trend of multi-platform malware developed in... Read More
Emotet Returns; This Time with Trickbot
Emotet, originally a banking trojan that gained notoriety in 2014 and is known for its prolonged periods of dormancy, has returned to the cybersecurity scene... Read More
Data Stolen from 26 Companies Being Sold by Hacker
Last Friday, a data breach broken began selling a combined 368.8 million stolen user records from twenty-six companies on a popular hacker forum. When threat... Read More
Clop Ransomware Group Claims Theft of Over 2 Million Credit Cards From E-Land Retail
The Clop ransomware gang is claiming to have stolen over 2 million credit cards from popular E-Land retailer over a one-year period that ended with... Read More
Two RubyGems Packages Found to Contain Bitcoin-Stealing Malware
Two RubyGems packages were found to be laced with Bitcoin-stealing malware, one of which contained code from a real package that was used to obfuscate... Read More
U.S. Department of Energy Hit with Massive Cyberattack; Nuclear Weapons Agency Hacked
The United States Energy Department and the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Agency) have been compromised as part of a widespread cyberattack uncovered earlier this week... Read More
Popular Add-ons for Facebook, Vimeo, and Instagram, Laced with Malware
Researchers have identified 28 popular extensions for Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge web browsers that may contain malware and are recommending that users uninstall them... Read More
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