The UAE's cyber security chief has disclosed that a hacker demanded more than $5 million after breaching a private-sector company, with stolen data circulated on Telegram and the dark web.
Anthropic disrupted three Iranian state-aligned influence operations using Claude for a "cognitive warfare" programme. Linked to the Ministry of Culture and IRGC apparatus, the actors built campaign doctrines, persona systems, and target databases.
A hacktivist group's claimed monthlong breach of a Southeast Asian labour ministry has triggered a nationwide 24-hour cyber-readiness mandate, a response pattern with clear relevance for labour-heavy Gulf economies.
ManageEngine will showcase its Zia Agents and a new Identity Access platform at GISEC Global 2026, off the back of 20% year-on-year growth across MENA.
Pakistan's IT Minister and Saudi Arabia's National Cybersecurity Authority Governor have signed an MoU to strengthen bilateral cybersecurity cooperation at LEAP 2026.
GISEC Global 2026 returns to Dubai from 16 to 18 September, bringing together more than 25,000 cybersecurity professionals and national cyber authorities as the industry confronts an AI-driven threat landscape.
Arqit, Qatar's Es'hailSat and systems integrator AIEE have demonstrated quantum-safe encryption on live satellite communications infrastructure in Doha, showing that post-quantum protection can be layered onto existing critical infrastructure networks without disrupting operations.
The Iranian threat group Nimbus Manticore is using trojanized coding challenges disguised as job interviews to deliver two new cross-platform RATs, NodeRabbit and PollCat, in a campaign researchers say targets critical sectors across the Middle East and Africa.
A new Kaspersky survey finds that 82% of small and mid-sized businesses in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year, with phishing and software vulnerability exploitation the most common entry points.
More than 130 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and CrowdStrike, have signed an open letter calling for urgent, coordinated action to defend critical infrastructure against increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled cyberattacks.
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