Coverage of cybersecurity incidents, policy, privacy, public services, advisories, and regional implications connected to the Middle East.
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Middle East covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Middle East, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Middle East's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
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More than 200 individuals were arrested for cybercrime activities during INTERPOL's Operation Ramz, which focused on the Middle East and North Africa. [...]
Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. [...]
The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) alerted British organizations to a heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. [...]
New variants of the Eagerbee malware framework are being deployed against government organizations and internet service providers (ISPs) in the Middle East. [...]
Threat actors target Middle Eastern organizations with malware disguised as the legitimate Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool that can steal data and execute remote PowerShell commands to infiltrate internal networks further. [...]
The Iranian state-backed threat actor tracked as APT42 is employing social engineering attacks, including posing as journalists, to breach corporate networks and cloud environments of Western and Middle Eastern targets. [...]
A novel malware named 'Agent Raccoon' (or Agent Racoon) is being used in cyberattacks against organizations in the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. [...]
The Iranian hacking group tracked as MuddyWater (aka APT34 or OilRig) breached at least twelve computers belonging to a Middle Eastern government network and maintained access for eight months between February and September 2023. [...]
A Chinese cyber-espionage hacking group tracked as Budworm has been observed targeting a telecommunication firm in the Middle East and a government entity in Asia using a new variant of its custom 'SysUpdate' backdoor. [...]
A novel and sophisticated backdoor malware named 'Deadglyph' was seen used in a cyberespionage attack against a government agency in the Middle East. [...]
A previously unknown threat actor dubbed 'Sandman' targets telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and South Asia, using a modular info-stealing malware named 'LuaDream.' [...]
New malware named HTTPSnoop and PipeSnoop are used in cyberattacks on telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, allowing threat actors to remotely execute commands on infected devices. [...]
The Israeli spyware vendor Candiru was found using a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome to spy on journalists and other high-interest individuals in the Middle East with the 'DevilsTongue' spyware. [...]
A newly discovered lightweight and persistent malware was used by attackers to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers belonging to government and military organizations from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. [...]
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted a spear-phishing operation linked to an Iranian threat actor tracked as Bohrium that targeted customers in the U.S., Middle East, and India. [...]
An Iranian-aligned hacking group tracked as TunnelVision was spotted exploiting Log4j on VMware Horizon servers to breach corporate networks in the Middle East and the United States. [...]