Tag: middle-east
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War in Iran Spiked Oil Prices. Trump Will Decide How High They Go
The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/war-in-iran-sent-oil-prices-up-trump-will-decide-how-high-they-go/
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UK warns of Iranian cyberattack risks amid Middle-East conflict
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) alerted British organizations to a heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-warns-of-iranian-cyberattack-risks-amid-middle-east-conflict/
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Hybrid Middle East Conflict Triggers Surge in Global Cyber Activity
Military strikes in the Middle East escalate cyber ops, raising spillover risks globally for firms First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/middle-east-conflict-surge-global/
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Middle East AWS Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Cloud Infrastructure Service
A severe infrastructure incident in the Middle East has triggered a massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, disrupting critical cloud operations across the region. The event, which aggressively impacted the ME-CENTRAL-1 (United Arab Emirates) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) regions, left countless organizations unable to access essential compute, networking, and storage resources. Physical Damage Sparks Data Center…
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Lazarus APT group deployed Medusa Ransomware against Middle East target
North Korea’s Lazarus Group used Medusa ransomware in an attack on an unnamed Middle East organization, researchers report. The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group, also known as Diamond Sleet and Pompilus, has been spotted deploying Medusa ransomware against an unnamed organization in the Middle East, according a new report from the Symantec and Carbon Black…
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Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks
Tags: attack, group, healthcare, intelligence, korea, lazarus, middle-east, north-korea, ransomware, threatThe North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team.Broadcom’s threat intelligence division said it also identified the same threat actors mounting an unsuccessful…
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North Korean state hackers seen using Medusa ransomware in attacks on US, Middle East
Tags: attack, country, cybersecurity, hacker, hacking, healthcare, lazarus, middle-east, military, north-korea, ransomwareCybersecurity researchers said they saw Medusa attacks launched by members of Lazarus, a well-known North Korean hacking operation housed within the country’s military, against a company in the Middle East and a healthcare organization in the U.S. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-using-medusa-ransomware
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Iran’s MuddyWater Targets Orgs With Fresh Malware as Tensions Mount
The long-active Iranian threat group debuted various attack strains and payloads in attacks against organizations in the Middle East and Africa. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/iran-muddywater-new-malware-tensions-mount
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MuddyWater Targets MENA Organizations with GhostFetch, CHAR, and HTTP_VIP
The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Earth Vetala, Mango Sandstorm, and MUDDYCOAST) has targeted several organizations and individuals mainly located across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as part of a new campaign codenamed Operation Olalampo.The activity, first observed on January 26, 2026, has resulted in the deployment of new malware…
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Protests Don’t Impede Iranian Spying on Expats, Syrians, Israelis
Iranian threat actors have been stealing credentials from people of interest across the Middle East, using spear-phishing and social engineering. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/iran-spies-expats-syrians-israelis
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North Korean PurpleBravo Campaign Targeted 3,136 IP Addresses via Fake Job Interviews
Tags: ai, crypto, finance, intelligence, jobs, middle-east, north-korea, programming, service, softwareAs many as 3,136 individual IP addresses linked to likely targets of the Contagious Interview activity have been identified, with the campaign claiming 20 potential victim organizations spanning artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, financial services, IT services, marketing, and software development sectors in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and Central America.The new findings First seen…
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North Korean PurpleBravo Campaign Targeted 3,136 IP Addresses via Fake Job Interviews
Tags: ai, crypto, finance, intelligence, jobs, middle-east, north-korea, programming, service, softwareAs many as 3,136 individual IP addresses linked to likely targets of the Contagious Interview activity have been identified, with the campaign claiming 20 potential victim organizations spanning artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, financial services, IT services, marketing, and software development sectors in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and Central America.The new findings First seen…
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North Korean PurpleBravo Campaign Targeted 3,136 IP Addresses via Fake Job Interviews
Tags: ai, crypto, finance, intelligence, jobs, middle-east, north-korea, programming, service, softwareAs many as 3,136 individual IP addresses linked to likely targets of the Contagious Interview activity have been identified, with the campaign claiming 20 potential victim organizations spanning artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, financial services, IT services, marketing, and software development sectors in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and Central America.The new findings First seen…
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Cybersecurity risk will accelerate this year, fueled in part by AI, says World Economic Forum
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, control, country, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, finance, framework, fraud, governance, healthcare, incident, infrastructure, international, middle-east, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in 2026, according to 94% of survey respondents;87% of respondents said AI-related vulnerabilities had increased in the past year. Other cyber risks that had increased were (in order) cyber-enabled fraud and phishing, supply chain disruption, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities;confidence in national cyber…
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MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors
The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater.”The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous C2, anti-analysis, registry persistence, and modular First seen…
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Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636636/Middle-East-tech-trends-2026-AI-cyber-security-and-sovereign-infrastructure-take-centre-stage
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Coordinated Scams Target MENA Region With Fake Online Job Ads
A coordinated wave of fake online job ads targeting the Middle East and North Africa has been uncovered, exploiting remote work trends First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scams-mena-fake-online-job/
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INE Security Expands Across Middle East and Asia to Accelerate Cybersecurity Upskilling
Cary, North Carolina, USA, 18th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/ine-security-expands-across-middle-east-and-asia-to-accelerate-cybersecurity-upskilling/
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INE Security Expands Across Middle East and Asia to Accelerate Cybersecurity Upskilling
Cary, North Carolina, USA, 18th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/ine-security-expands-across-middle-east-and-asia-to-accelerate-cybersecurity-upskilling/
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INE Security Expands Across Middle East and Asia to Accelerate Cybersecurity Upskilling
Cary, North Carolina, USA, 18th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/ine-security-expands-across-middle-east-and-asia-to-accelerate-cybersecurity-upskilling/
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WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor
An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020.Palo Alto Networks is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ashen Lepus. Artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal platform show that the threat actor…
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WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor
An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020.Palo Alto Networks is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ashen Lepus. Artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal platform show that the threat actor…
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How Agentic AI Can Boost Cyber Defense
Transurban head of cyber defense Muhammad Ali Paracha shares how his team is automating the triaging and scoring of security threats as part of the Black Hat Middle East conference. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-analytics/how-agentic-ai-can-boost-cyber-defense
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Google Finds New Malware Backdoors Linked to Iran
Hacking Group Deploys Raft of Custom Malware Variants. An Iranian state hacking group with a history of targeting aerospace, aviation and defense industries across the Middle East has improved its tooling with multiple custom malware variants, warned Google. The group, tracked as UNC1549, is suspected of ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. First seen…
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TDL 009 – Inside DNS Threat Intelligence: Privacy, Security Innovation
Tags: access, apple, attack, automation, backup, best-practice, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, country, crime, cybersecurity, data, dns, encryption, finance, firewall, government, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, linkedin, malicious, marketplace, middle-east, monitoring, msp, network, office, privacy, regulation, risk, service, software, strategy, threat, tool, windows, zero-trustSummary Inside DNS Threat Intelligence: Privacy, Security & Innovation In this episode of the Defenders Log, host David Redekop speaks with Tim Adams, the founder of the protective DNS resolver Scout DNS. Tim shares his origin story, explaining how he transitioned from a wireless network integrator to building his own DNS solution. He saw a…
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LANDFALL spyware exploited Samsung zero-day CVE-2025-21042 in Middle East attacks
A now-patched Samsung Galaxy flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-21042, was exploited as a zero-day to deploy LANDFALL spyware in targeted attacks in Middle East. Samsung patched a flaw exploited as a zero-day, tracked as CVE-2025-21042 (CVSS score of 8.8), to deploy LANDFALL spyware on Galaxy devices in Middle East attacks. >>Unit 42 researchers have uncovered a…
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Samsung Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by ‘Landfall’ Spyware
Spyware Targets Samsung Galaxy Devices, Says Unit 42. Hackers used previously unknown commercial spyware dubbed Landfall to surveil the activities of Samsung Galaxy device owners in the Middle East, say security researchers who posit the threat actor has connections to the United Arab Emirates. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/samsung-zero-day-flaw-exploited-by-landfall-spyware-a-29963
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New Landfall spyware apparently targeting Samsung phones in Middle East
Palo Alto Networks researchers haven’t been able to identify who’s behind the commercial-grade tech yet. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/landfall-spyware-samsung-phones-palo-alto-networks-unit-42/
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New Landfall spyware apparently targeting Samsung phones in Middle East
Palo Alto Networks researchers haven’t been able to identify who’s behind the commercial-grade tech yet. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/landfall-spyware-samsung-phones-palo-alto-networks-unit-42/
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‘Landfall’ spyware abused zero-day to hack Samsung Galaxy phones
A newly identified Android spyware targeted Galaxy devices for close to a year, including users in the Middle East, researchers exclusively tell TechCrunch. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/landfall-spyware-abused-zero-day-to-hack-samsung-galaxy-phones/