Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity news, data protection updates, cloud security trends, and digital threat intelligence for businesses and organizations in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.
Kaspersky found that red tape is the main barrier for cybersecurity initiatives in industrial sector
The recent Kaspersky report ‘State of Industrial Cybersecurity in the Era of Digitalization’ has revealed the main barriers that inhibit or delay implementation of industrial cybersecurity projects. The most common obstacles include the inability to stop production (34%), and bureaucratic steps, such as a lengthy approval process (31%) and having too many decision-makers (23%). These […]
The number of suspicious websites featuring Apple has grown 7-fold this month
During the first eight months of 2020, Kaspersky experts saw a steady interest from cybercriminals in targeting Apple users: over 100 suspicious domains with the word “apple” in their names associated with the technology company were detected worldwide. However, in September 2020 the number of such resources increased rapidly and by September 9th there was […]
W7Worldwide and VirtuPort Publish Crisis Communications Guide to Help Companies Prepare for Increased Risk of Covid-19 Cyberattacks
Covid-19 is fast accelerating the digital transformation of businesses and organizations, including retail, education, financial, and healthcare. With this rapid digitization comes an increased risk and impact of cyberattacks on companies. Cyberattacks have been growing at an alarming rate, exploiting the disruption and social and economic situation created by Covid-19. Corporate reputation and cyber risk […]
HMS Ecosystem Breaks New Ground to Enable Global Developers to Create A Digital Future
At Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Together) today, Huawei shared updates on Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Ecosystem. Delivering his keynote speech titled “Together, Let’s Play with HMS”, Zhang Ping’an, President of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, highlighted its 2020 achievements, announced that there are 1.8 million developers registered with HMS, doubling that of HDC.2019. […]
THREATCONNECT ACQUIRES CYBER RISK QUANTIFICATION PIONEER NEHEMIAH SECURITY
ThreatConnect Inc.®, the leader in reducing complexity and enabling better decision making in cybersecurity, today announces the acquisition of Nehemiah Security, Inc, (“Nehemiah”) a pioneer in the rapidly growing Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) space. On August 18, 2020, ThreatConnect through its purchaser entity, NS Holdings LLC, acquired substantially all of the assets and assumed selected […]
OmniClouds Standardizes on Versa Networks to Deliver Secure SD-WAN Across the Globe
OmniClouds, the leading innovator in the cloud service provider (CSP) space and migrator for the EMEA region, today announced that it has adopted the Versa Secure SD-WAN solution to offer and expand services across the globe, using OmniClouds’ comprehensive SDN-dedicated network offering a unique experience of true SLA-based cloud services. OmniClouds platform connects its enterprise […]
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Many drivers get to know their cars like close companions over time, but how well do our cars know us? Vehicles soon will prompt their owners to make a regular phone call, work out at a favoured time, or stop off at a much-loved coffee shop – if those activities are part of their regular […]
Working-from-home lessons: employees ‘confidently’ make 90% of all security awareness mistakes
Free security awareness training on remote working from Kaspersky and Area9 Lyceum has seen participants enact correct responses 66% of the time. However, even when learners were wrong, they mostly remained confident in their competences. The most difficult learning objectives proved to be virtual machines, updates, and reasons why people should use corporate IT resources […]
Western Digital Sets a New Standard in Data Protection with Ground-Breaking ArmorLock Security Platform
Underscoring its mission to enable the world to solve its biggest data challenges by building a data infrastructure with next-gen security, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today introduced the ArmorLock™ Security Platform. A data encryption platform that rethinks how data security should be done, the ArmorLock Security Platform was created to help with the diverse security […]
DDoS attacks against educational resources increased by more than 350% this spring
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks (attacks that aim to overwhelm a network until the server crashes) against educational resources grew exponentially this spring when compared to the previous year. For each month from January to June 2020, the number of DDoS attacks affecting educational online resources increased by at least 350% when compared to […]
SANS Institute Introduces Cloud Security Training Courses in the Middle East
SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, announced the availability of cloud security and certification training courses for the region. The GCC region is witnessing a brisk pace of cloud adoption due to the ongoing work from home initiatives by the government and private sector. Coupled with this adoption of public cloud, there […]
Kaspersky launches new program to help universities and laboratories advance their industrial cybersecurity research
Kaspersky has launched a dedicated collaboration program to help institutions become better equipped at understanding the latest and most prevalent industrial cybersecurity threats. By joining the program, educational institutions, laboratories, research departments, security operations centers (SOC) and emergency response teams (CERT and CSIRT) that meet the partner profile criteria will be able to improve how […]
Ericsson RAN processes fully compliant with new 3GPP/GSMA NESAS network security global standards
Security has been fundamental to the research, design and development of Ericsson 5G RAN from the outset and is central to Ericsson Radio System products and solutions. Now, Ericsson’s Radio Access Network (RAN) technology development processes are fully compliant with the new 3GPP/GSMA Network Security Assurance Schemes (NESAS) standards. NESAS is jointly defined by 3GPP and the […]
Kaspersky GReAT shares expertise on threat hunting with YARA in new online training course
Kaspersky is unveiling a new online self-study course, entitled ‘Hunt APTs with YARA like a GReAT Ninja.’ Armed with this training, any IT security professional interested in the topic can learn from the Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team’s best practices on threat hunting with YARA. In addition to the practical insights from the company’s […]
DeathStalker: detailed look at a mercenary APT group that spies on small and medium businesses
Kaspersky researchers have published a detailed overview of DeathStalker, a ‘mercenary’ advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been leveraging efficient espionage attacks on small and medium-sized firms in the financial sector since at least 2012. The most recent discoveries demonstrate that the group has been targeting companies all over the world, from Europe to […]
Transparent Tribe, transparent lives: new Android spyware distributed under the guise of popular apps
Kaspersky researchers have shared their findings about a new Android spyware application distributed by Transparent Tribe, a prolific APT group, in India under the guise of adult content and official COVID-19 applications. This reflects the group’s move towards extending their operations and infecting mobile devices. This, and other findings, were released in the second part […]
A look into Transparent Tribe: the prolific espionage campaign after military and government related personnel
In January 2019, Kaspersky started an investigation into an ongoing campaign launched by a group known as Transparent Tribe to distribute the Crimson Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The attacks started with malicious Microsoft Office documents being sent to the victims through the use of spear-phishing emails. In only a year, researchers have found more than […]
Phishing goes targeted and diversifies during COVID-19 outbreak with 973,061 attacks in Q2 in Saudi Arabia
Kaspersky analysis has revealed that phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted. A number of new tricks have also been found – from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As a result of such tendencies, security solutions have detected 2,578,501 phishing attacks in Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. […]
Bullseye: Kaspersky brand wins Red Dot Award 2020
Kaspersky brand has been recognized with a prestigious Red Dot Award in the Brands & Communication Design 2020 category, which honors the best brands and creative works of the year. By winning over the Red Dot jury, the global cybersecurity company has proven that its brand stands for high design quality and integrated brand management. […]
Kaspersky finds zero-day exploits in Windows OS and Internet Explorer used in targeted attack
In late spring 2020, Kaspersky’s automated detection technologies prevented a targeted attack on a South Korean company. Closer analysis revealed that this attack used a previously unknown full chain that consisted of two zero-day exploits: a remote code execution exploit for Internet Explorer 11 and an elevation of privileges (EoP) exploit for Windows. The latter […]
Keep complex attacks under lockdown: Kaspersky expands its product portfolio for security researchers with sandboxing technology
Kaspersky sandboxing technology is now available for use in customer networks. The on-premises Kaspersky Research Sandbox is designed for organizations with strict restrictions on data sharing, to enable them to build their internal security operations centers (SOCs) or computer emergency response teams (CERTs). The solution helps them to detect and analyze targeted threats while also […]
Cisco 2020 CISO Benchmark Report Shows Increased Investment in Cloud Security and Automation Technologies to Combat Complexity
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in enterprise security, published its sixth annual CISO Benchmark Report surveying the security posture of 2,800 security professionals from 13 countries around the globe. The report provides 20 cybersecurity considerations for 2020 – gleaned from data analysis of survey results and a panel of Advisory CISOs. Complexity Continues to be […]