Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, has reminded football fans of how cybercriminals have used people’s interest in the sport to launch cyberattacks. Football has been targeted before by those who want to turn international community events into attacks. It’s a sad fact that cyberattacks often go hand in hand with major […]
John Madisson, Senior Vice President – Products and Solutions at Fortinet, discusses how cryptojacking is emerging as one of the biggest cyberthreats facing global organisations and enterprises. As the threat landscape continues to become more complex and more difficult to fight, it forces security to adapt to meet the demands of automation, agility and analytics. […]
Mohammad Jamal Tabbara, Senior Systems Engineer – UAE and Channel at Infoblox, says organisations should not be fooled into thinking there is a ‘silver bullet’ for preventing cyberattacks but instead look to implement a ‘unified defence’. Enterprises of all sizes are falling victim to very determined malicious actors whose motivations range from financial gain to […]
Kaspersky Lab experts have identified phishing emails from fraudsters offering users the chance to snap up much sought after ‘guest’ tickets to the 2018 FIFA World Cup – but at a higher price than fans bargained for. Some tickets are on offer at 10 times their original price and while the tickets are likely to […]
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes. This is the first time the Doppelgänging technique has been seen in ransomware in the wild. The developers behind SynAck also implement other tricks to evade detection and analysis […]
Malware in the official Google store never stops appearing – it is a ‘huge victory’ for cybercriminals to sneak their malicious applications into the marketplace of genuine apps. Denise Giusto Bilić, Security Researcher at ESET, summarises some of the common behaviours of malicious Android code over the last few years. Deceit based on social […]
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered ZooPark, a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, which has been targeting users of Android devices based in a number of Middle Eastern countries for several years. Using legitimate websites as sources of infection, the campaign appears to be a nation-state backed operation aimed at political organisations, activists and other targets based in […]
A car-booking app which operates in the Middle East and North Africa has issued an apology after announcing it was subject to a cyberattack earlier this year. Careem – a car-booking app which operates in 13 countries – published a statement online about the cyberbreach. It said that on January 14 the firm had identified […]
Businesses need to be on high alert in the UAE to combat the growing threat from computer hackers, an IT transformation management expert has warned. Morten Meltinis, IT expert at PA Consulting Group, says a number of recent scares have underlined why security must be high on the business agenda in the UAE to counter […]
