Active DMC, in partnership with Code Red, conducted an international research to discover how IT security decision makers source their information to help make decisions on which vendors to go with or recommend. Louay Al Samarrai joint Managing Director Active DMC, discusses the findings of the survey to Security MEA.Read More…
Check Point Research (CPR) identified four security vulnerabilities affecting products in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online. If exploited, the vulnerabilities would grant an attacker the ability to execute code on targets via malicious Office documents, such as Word (.DOCX), Excel (.EXE) and Outlook (.EML).Read More…
Group-IB has presented a comprehensive analysis of fraud schemes globally and revealed an ongoing large-scale scam campaign targeting the MEA region. Nearly 140 famous brands from over 15 Arabic-speaking countries were exploited by scammers who created fake pages with giveawaysRead More…
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, announced the findings of its global survey, “The IT Security Team: 2021 and Beyond,” which shows how increased security challenges during the pandemic offered IT teams a unique opportunity to build their cybersecurity expertise. The vast majority of IT teams in the UAERead More…
Cisco has today published its 2021 SMB Security Outcomes Study, a derivative of Cisco’s flagship cybersecurity report, 2021 Security Outcomes Study, highlighting what SMB leaders are doing to thrive in today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, as well as offering actionable insights on where they should focus their digitization, security planning andRead More…
A new threat actor SentinelLabs track as Agrius was observed operating in Israel beginning in 2020. An analysis of what at first sight appeared to be a ransomware attack revealed new variants of wipers that were deployed in a set of destructive attacks against Israeli targets. The operators behind theRead More…
For the seventh quarter in a row, Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) has observed ransomware dominating the threat landscape. The top variants between November 2020 and January 2021 were Ryuk and Vatet. Cisco Talos has also observed variants of Egregor and WastedLocker continuing to target organizations across the globe.Read More…
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today released the “Active Adversary Playbook 2021,” detailing attacker behaviors and the tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that Sophos’ frontline threat hunters and incident responders saw in the wild in 2020. The TTP detection data also covers early 2021. The findings show thatRead More…
