Most UAE enterprises are vulnerable to cyber-attacks

guest · Jun 25, 2019

Most UAE enterprises are vulnerable to cyber-attacks
Cybersecurity firm DarkMatter releases its first 2019 threat landscape report
June 25, 2019
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/most-uae-enterprises-are-vulnerable-to-cyber-attacks

Nearly all of businesses located within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are running outdated software, with economic espionage the primary motivator for hacking campaigns observed throughout the region.
That’s according to a new threat landscape report released by the UAE-based cybersecurity firm DarkMatter, which documents threats facing the Gulf states between October 2018 and March 2019.

64,530 vulnerabilities out of 647,891 public facing hosts in the UAE were rated as ‘critical’ according to the 2019 report, with nearly 49% of these vulnerabilities being exploited due to misconfiguration and poor access control.
Information leaks were the most common vulnerability discovered (45%), followed by data handling (20%), input validation (15%), and buffer errors (5%).

“A second observation is that organizations lack policies around updating software and patching software, which might expose them to risks.”
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DarkMatter: Cyber Security Report - June 2019

guest · Oct 6, 2019

Kaspersky Security Network: H1 2019 UAE Threat Landscape in Review
October 6, 2019
https://www.albawaba.com/business/p...k-h1-2019-uae-threat-landscape-review-1313015

The Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), specialised infrastructure designed to process threat information and transform into actionable insights, has found that the UAE, seen as heavily prone to being targeted for malicious cyberattacks, has had a very eventful H1 2019 when it comes to Banking Trojans, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, and Web threats.

The KSN insights reviewed instances of attacks in the UAE between January and June 2019, and compared this against the same 6-month period in 2018. The highest activity was seen in Banking Trojans, as the UAE saw an astounding 88 per cent increase over the same half-year period in 2018.
The UAE recorded a 36 per cent increase in Phishing in H1 2019 over H1 2018, higher than the regional growth rate of 20.6 per cent.
Malware presented a challenge as well, recording growth of 6 per cent in the UAE and a nearly-identical pace of growth across the Middle East (5.8%).
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