Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

It's Time for CIOs to Rethink Business Continuity Plans and Cloud ResourcesThe targeting of commercial cloud data centers in the Middle East marks a turning point for CIOs and enterprise leaders. Geopolitics and military conflicts are definite threats to vital technology infrastructure. The question is: How well-prepared and resilient is your enterprise?

Data centers — used by both governments and militaries for operations — are now fair game, not just for cyberattacks, but for kinetic attacks as well.

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. [...]

Nation-State Hackers Sheltering From Bombs or Cut Off From InternetIranian cyber proxies are girding for revenge while nation-state hackers in Tehran have gone quiet, whether to shelter from an onslaught of missile attacks or because the Middle Eastern country remains disconnected from the global internet on the third day of a U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign.

The Iranian state-backed hacking outfit called APT42 is making use of enhanced social engineering schemes to infiltrate target networks and cloud environments

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. [...]

Organizations boost cybersecurity budgets to tackle data-privacy and cloud-security threats amid speedy adoption of generative AI.

Increasingly, businesses are concerned about the speed of their cloud incident response times.

Loosening attitudes about cloud security are expected to create a nearly $10 billion public cloud market in the Middle East by 2027.