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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.
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The ransomware campaign relies on basic social engineering and stretches across multiple regions, including the US, Europe, Middle East, and elsewhere.
While the numbers are modest, the crackdown on cybercrime involved 13 countries in the MENA region, the largest law enforcement collaboration to date.
As the war with Iran continues, breach attempts targeting the United Arab Emirates tripled in a few weeks — many targeting critical infrastructure.
Data centers — used by both governments and militaries for operations — are now fair game, not just for cyberattacks, but for kinetic attacks as well.
The long-active Iranian threat group debuted various attack strains and payloads in attacks against organizations in the Middle East and Africa.
Iranian threat actors have been stealing credentials from people of interest across the Middle East, using spear-phishing and social engineering.
Hamas's best hackers have been maturing, building better malware, and spreading their attacks more widely across the region.
Transurban head of cyber defense Muhammad Ali Paracha shares how his team is automating the triaging and scoring of security threats as part of the Black Hat Middle East conference.
In the hotly political Middle East, you'd expect hacktivism and disruption of services. But retail attacks?
The first documented deployment of the novel malware in a campaign against the Middle Eastern public sector and aviation industry may be tied to China's state-sponsored actor Earth Baxia.
As tensions in the Middle East rise, hacktivist groups are coming out of the woodwork with their own agendas, leading to notable shifts in the hacktivist threat landscape.
After President's Trump decision to enter the US into the conflict in the Middle East, the Department of Homeland Security expects there to be an uptick in Iranian hacktivists and state-sponsored actors targeting US systems.
The Iranian state-backed group targeted the operational technology of a critical national infrastructure (CNI) network and persisted in its network for years, but ultimately failed.
Gartner projects IT security spending in the MENA region will continue to increase in 2025, with security services accounting for the most growth.
An Indian disaster-relief flight delivering aid is the latest air-traffic incident, as attacks increase in the Middle East and Myanmar and along the India-Pakistan border.
As the region continues with its ambitious road map, cybersecurity must be woven into every step of the process.
A Libya-linked threat actor has resurfaced, using the same old political phishing tricks to deliver AsyncRAT that have worked for years.
Cybercriminals are ramping up their efforts in the Kingdom and targeting more than just petroleum firms; now, they're aiming for Middle East organizations in the IT, government, construction, and real estate sectors too.
As the UAE financial sector finished up its annual cyberattack exercise, its worries about ransomware compromises and geopolitical attacks are on the rise.