Slack Technologies, the company whose cloud-based collaboration tools and services are used by companies worldwide, has warned potential investors that the company faces threats from a wide variety of sources, including “sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors.”
Acknowledging the risk
In the documents it was required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to its going public, the company has spelled out the many cyber threats to its existence, functioning and financial results (and investors’ bottom line): “traditional” computer hackers, malicious code, employee theft or misuse, password spraying, phishing, credential stuffing, DoS attacks, compromised API keys and passwords, and so on.
