Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity news, data protection updates, cloud security trends, and digital threat intelligence for businesses and organizations in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.
Ransomware operators and where to find them: Kaspersky sheds light on the ransomware ecosystem
Ransomware is on the tip of everyone’s tongue every time businesses discuss cyberthreats they are likely to face in 2021. Attackers have built their brands and are bold in their advances like never before, with the news about organizations being hit with ransomware consistently on newspaper front pages. But by placing themselves under the spotlight, such […]
Kaspersky: 45% of respondents in Saudi Arabia believe scammers become more active during the pandemic
The recent Kaspersky survey[1] showed that 64% of people in Saudi Arabia dealt with the fraudsters who were trying to steal money, bank card details, internet banking credentials in 2020. 33% of respondents encountered scammers themselves, 23%said it was their loved ones who had interacted with criminals, and the other 8% marked both categories. According to […]
Cyber Security Company, Rapid7, Hit by Supply Chain Attack
Codecov, a San Francisco based company in the technology industry was recently made victim of a vast cyber security attack, likened to the SolarWinds attack, that has had a forceful and devastating effect, impacting users around the globe, including cyber security company Rapid7. ‘Supply chain attacks rose by 42% in the first quarter of 2021 […]
Automated learning, vulnerability management, and more in new Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks
May the force of industrial cybersecurity be with you Kaspersky has launched the new edition of its industrial network visibility and security platform, Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks. In addition to operational technology (OT) traffic monitoring, which reveals unauthorized activity, Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks now flags vulnerabilities in equipment and gives recommendations for their […]
Help AG – Etisalat Digital Security Named as a Major Player in GCC Professional Security Services by IDC MarketScape
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 18, 2021: Help AG – Etisalat Digital Security, the cybersecurity arm of Etisalat Digital and one of the region’s most trusted security service providers, has been named as a Major Player in the influential IDC MarketScape: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Professional Security Services 2020 Vendor Assessment (Doc # META47033220, December 2020). The […]
Increase in cyberattacks in Kingdom turns spotlight on digital forensics
With an increase in reliance on technology and cloud computing in various sectors and industries, and the growth of cryptocurrency, cyber threats and attacks, industrial espionage, information security breaches, identity fraud, financial fraud, and other illegal activities that involve the application of cyber forensics, are bound to expand. This is especially true in the post-COVID-19 […]
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Back to normal: Despite a spike in January, DDoS attacks in Q1 2021 return to pre-lockdown numbers
In Q1 2021, the number of DDoS attacks dropped by 29% compared to the same period in 2020, but increased by 47% compared to Q4 2020, according to data from Kaspersky DDoS Prevention. However, this growth is explained by an unusual spike in January – that month accounted for 43% of all attacks in the […]
Internet Connection Sharing Creates New Opportunities for Affiliate Marketing: Unused Bandwidth Can Now Be Used to Boost Earnings
With many affiliate marketing programs canceled due to the pandemic, residential IP providers like IPRoyal invite individuals to become affiliates in their internet connection-sharing businesses. May 14, 2021. The pandemic’s effects on affiliate marketing programs for essential versus non-essential goods have varied massively. While affiliate offers for gyms and some education courses have been substantially lowered […]
What Makes a Successful Incident Management Platform?
An Incident Management Platform should, ideally, be an arena for security orchestration and response tooling, to have live information at the user’s fingertips, to rapidly identify and limit the impact of security threats and risks. This needs to include 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and targeted response, powered by real-time log analytics, with security orchestration, automation, and response […]
Operation TunnelSnake: formerly unknown rootkit used to secretly control networks of organizations in Asia and Africa
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered TunnelSnake, an ongoing advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign, active since 2019, which has targeted regional diplomatic entities in Asia and Africa. The attackers deployed a previously unknown rootkit dubbed Moriya. This piece of malware, with nearly absolute power over the operating system, enabled threat actors to intercept network traffic and conceal […]
The vaccination cyberthreat: Kaspersky reports intensified scamming activities around COVID-19 vaccines in Q1 2021
Scammers are constantly searching for new ways to steal users’ data. Last year, a completely new category of opportunity became one of the most profitable scams for fraudsters. They extensively used COVID-19 related spam letters and phishing pages to benefit from the year’s most alarming and high-profile news story. According to a new Kaspersky report, […]
Mimecast recognized with 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Distinction in Two Markets: Email Security and Enterprise Information Archiving
Based on Feedback by End-User Professionals Who Have Experience Implementing and Using Mimecast Solutions Dubai, UAE – May 10, 2021 – Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), leading email security and cyber resilience company, has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Email Security and the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer: Enterprise Information […]
The Value of a Managed Incident Response Platform
SecurityHQ’s Incident Management and Analytics platform is a comprehensive Cyber Incident Response and Analytics platform powered by IBM QRadar, IBM Resilient and IBM X-Force, to help customers and Managed Security Service Providers track, visualize, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. The platform won IBM 2021 Beacon Awards, for Outstanding Security Solution. And with good reason. It is […]
Accelerating digital transformation: Arthur D. Little details why Middle Eastern cities require comprehensive 5G strategies
5G use cases can re-imagine economic and infrastructure development with latency, bandwidth, data rates, and devices density 10 times greater than 4G Dubai, UAE – 5 May 2021: Cities face many challenges stemming from societal and technological changes, with population growth, urbanization, infrastructure provision, cybercrime, and environmental pollution driving the increasing necessity for new digital use […]
Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection, receives more than $250M investment at a $2.5B valuation
Funding to accelerate growth, expand its portfolio of cyber protection products, and enable service providers to serve their clients better Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 04 May 2021, (AETOSWire) – Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection, is pleased to announce that it has received more than $250 million funding round from CVC Capital Partners VII and other investors. Acronis will use the […]
New Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud upgraded with EDR for small and medium businesses
Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud now includes endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities dedicated to small and medium-sized organizations. It gives IT administrators visibility over affected endpoints and the attack kill chain, so they can analyze incident parameters and root causes, and then take proactive measures to enhance overall business protection. Reliable protection from cyber-risks is […]
How to Minimise the Risks of Geo-Location Tagging
Do you know what and who is tracking your location? Do you know why people/websites and businesses want this information? Geolocation is the identification of the geographic location of a user or computing device via an array of data collection processes (Device/Server based and Combined data collection). The most used Geo-location service is a GPS device to […]
Old but gold: 18% of PC users in Saudi Arabia still running end-of-life Windows 7 OS
Kaspersky conducted a study based on anonymized OS metadata provided by consenting Kaspersky Security Network users. The survey has found that (18%) of PC users are still using the end-of-life OS Windows 7, which stopped receiving mainstream support in January 2020. When an OS comes to the end of its lifecycle, no more updates will […]
DDoS and Ransomware Attacks Reach Unprecedented Levels in the Middle East, According to Help AG’s State of the Market Report 2021
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 3, 2021: Over ten million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were recorded globally in 2020, including a 183% increase in the UAE alone, while ransomware attacks are on the rise, with the government, private, oil and gas, telecom and healthcare sectors particularly affected, according to the State of the Market […]
The quarter of patches: APT actors increasingly turn to exploits to launch attacks
Over the past three months, the major waves of advanced persistent threat activity have been driven by supply chain attacks and zero day exploits. A compromise in SolarWind’s Orion IT software for monitoring IT infrastructures led to a custom backdoor being installed on more than 18,000 customer networks, while a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server […]
Kaspersky reports financial results with stable business growth of 14% in the Middle East
Kaspersky delivered stable business growth in 2020 and increased its global unaudited IFRS revenue to a total of 704 million*, representing a 3% YOY increase*. During a year filled with challenges associated with the pandemic, the company demonstrated positive results protecting users’ privacy and helping businesses mitigate cybersecurity risks amid increased digitalization. Globally, the company’s […]
GoDaddy shares tips on how to start an online business
As Saudi Arabia ramps up its support for digital transformation of business and e-commerce, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs around the world, offered a number of tips to help entrepreneurs start an online business. Selina Bieber, Senior Regional Director for Turkey and MENA Region, GoDaddy said, “GoDaddy supports Saudi Arabia’s ‘2030 Vision’, with the goal […]