Gulf Business Machines (GBM) has announced the launch of GBM Shield, its most comprehensive cybersecurity offering to date. GBM Shield was introduced to regional organizations at the flagship GBM Security Summit held in Kuwait City. Developed to address evolving security challenges that regional organizations face due to the sophisticated threatRead More…
SentinelOne has announced its intent to participate at Cairo ICT 2022 from 27-30 November, and will highlight its cutting edge autonomous extended detection and response (XDR) platform, and identity and credential protection solutions. Cairo ICT is a key technology fair and forum for the Middle East and Africa region. TheRead More…
Email security researchers from the Trellix Advanced Research Centre have found attackers to be leveraging FIFA and football-based campaigns to target organisations in Arab countries and consequently, the volume of malicious emails in Arab Countries was observed to have increased by 100 per cent in the month of October. “ItRead More…
Cisco Talos has released its latest quarterly report that examines incident response trends and global cyber threats. Key findings: For the first time since compiling these reports, Cisco Talos Incident Response saw an equal number of ransomware and pre-ransomware engagements, making up nearly 40 percent of threats this quarter. TheRead More…
Cybereason has published results from a global study of organisations that had suffered a ransomware attack on a holiday or weekend. The study highlights an ongoing disconnect between the increased risk organisations face from ransomware attacks that occur on holidays and weekends and their readiness to handle them, as year-over-year,Read More…
From January to September 2022, computers in the industrial control systems (ICS) environment were attacked using multiple means. In the META region, malicious objects were blocked on 38% of ICS computers in the region that were protected by Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) solutions, according to Kaspersky ICS CERT statistics. Globally the shareRead More…
Zain KSA has signed a MoU with StarLink to provide cybersecurity and cloud computing services in the Kingdom. Zain KSA has signed a MoU Memorandum of Understanding with StarLink for cybersecurity and cloud computing services (StarLink MDMC) to discuss the opportunities of further cooperation between the two parties. The MoURead More…
Accompanying the successful ESET Threat Report, ESET Research launches the ESET APT Activity Report, aiming to provide a periodic overview of ESET’s findings on the activities of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. In the first installment, covering T2 2022 (May-August 2022), ESET Research saw no decline in the APT activityRead More…
