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 […]