BlackBerry has released its Global Threat Intelligence Report, highlighting the volume and model of threats across a range of organizations and regions, including industry-specific attacks targeting the automotive and manufacturing, healthcare and financial sectors. BlackBerry’s Threat Research and Intelligence team identified that in the 90 days between September 1 andRead More…
Mandiant has released a comprehensive report detailing FIN12, an aggressive, financially motivated threat group behind prolific ransomware attacks since October 2018. Almost 20% of the ransomware intrusions Mandiant has responded to in the past year were attributed to FIN12.Read More…
Mohammed Al-Moneer, Regional Director, Middle East, Turkey & Africa at Infoblox, elaborates on the major ransomware trends. Trend 1 – Ransomware attacks continue to grow Ransomware is once again front and center. This year has turned out to be one of the worst years for ransomware.Read 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…
ESET researchers have discovered a new operation within a long-running cyber-espionage campaign in the Middle East, apparently with links to the threat actor group known as Gaza Hackers, or Molerats.Read More…
Muddy Water, an advanced threat actor first which was seen targeting Iraq and Saudi Arabia last year, have resurfaced and is seen in massive operation focusing on government entities and more in in Turkey, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Iraq. Saudi Arabia, Mali, Austria, Russia, Iran, and Bahrain,Read More…
