Middle East & Africa

Women of color are being offered a scholarship opportunity in South Africa — the offer will cover costs for pursuing a cyber career and encourage greater diversity of those studying cybersecurity courses.

The Global Cybersecurity Forum branch, which will be in Riyadh, is meant to enable the exchange of ideas and facilitate international projects and partnerships.

CIARA V4.0 boosts compliance with security regulations and best practices while providing effective mitigation guidance. "CISOs are doing more with less, making it challenging to understand their current standing across the OT Cybersecurity landscape," said Ilan Barda, Radiflow CEO and co-founder.

SMS campaigns targeting members of the public in the United Arab Emirates have been detected.

Enables financial services firm to operationalize MITRE ATT&CK with Splunk and eliminate detection coverage gaps based on organizational risk and priorities.

The "missed package" phishing messages, likely the work of a hacking-for-hire group, bounds into inboxes, bearing ASyncRAT.

Targeted attacks against Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations have been detected with a tool that's been in the wild since 2020.

Perception Point's 2023 Annual Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights' analyzes the most prevalent cyberattack trends amidst today's complex threat landscape, identifying an overall increase of 87% in the total number of attacks over the course of last year.

Bank of Ghana's security operations center will boost visibility into threats and enable threat intelligence sharing, it says.

Researchers say the Iranian nation-state actor known as Tortoiseshell could be behind the attacks.

Pro-Houthi OilAlpha uses spoofed Android apps to monitor victims across the Arab peninsula working to bring stability to Yemen.

Dubbed "ChattyGoblin," the China-backed actors use chatbots to scam Southeast Asian gambling companies.

The Technology Innovation Institute’s year-long cryptographic challenges invite participants to assess the concrete hardness of McEliece public-key encryption scheme.

While the goal of the site's new DR Global section is to expand international coverage, the initial focus will be cybersecurity professionals in the Middle East and Africa.