eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2018, Gulf countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) came under the spotlight of cybercriminals increasingly often. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team continuously analyses compromised cards data all over the world. Number of compromised cards ramps up in GCC.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) has enacted its long awaited federal level data protection law. The PDPL will be overseen by the Emirates Data Office (“ Data Office ”), pursuant to Federal Decree-Law No. (44) This article examines some of its key features. The Data Protection Office. 44) of 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

According to media reports, TA505 recent attacks were targeting individuals working at financial organizations in the US, the United Arab Emirates, and in Singapore. Group-IB is a partner of INTERPOL and Europol, a member of the World Economic Forum, and is recommended by the OSCE as a cybersecurity solutions provider.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 28, 2022

Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab When Downing Street was recently named as the suspected victim of a phone hack by the United Arab Emirates using the Israeli-made spyware, Pegasus, few were surprised at who was behind the discovery.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

After a nslookup on all IPs, I found that among the victims there are some Banks, many.gov domains and thousands of companies around the world. China, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and Spain are part of the TOP 10 most impacted countries. link] — Bank Security (@Bank_Security) November 20, 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Victim organizations are small and medium-sized businesses located in Argentina, China, Cyprus, India, Israel, Lebanon, Switzerland, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. PowerPepper has mainly been used against law and consultancy firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The experts called the campaign ‘MuddyWater’ due to the confusion in attributing these attacks that took place between February and October 2017 targeting entities in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Georgia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United States to date.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

Investigating the c2 infrastructure through the Azorult-Tracker services, we noticed the AZOrult malware distributed by Aggah in that period was targeting a modest number of victims mainly located in the United States, United Arab Emirates and also Pakistan, Germany and Israel. Conclusions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

The group has targeted organizations across multiple industries in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea, with a particular interest in the aviation and energy sectors.” According to MITRE: “APT33 is a suspected Iranian threat group that has carried out operations since at least 2013.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Fortunately, there are those in the InfoSec world, who are actively looking at the subject and speaking out at conferences, such as Black Hat. In early September 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2022

In September 2021, the Conti ransomware gang hit high society jeweler Graff and threatens to release private details of world leaders, actors and tycoons. Leaked data included info about purchases made by the royal families from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Qatar.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 11, 2022

Here's one [link] — Jeff Barnes (@mani2jeff) March 10, 2022 Jeff pointed me to the World Population Review website and in particular, the democracy ranking by country. United Kingdom. United States. United Arab Emirates. Full Democracy. Luxembourg. Full Democracy. Full Democracy. Full Democracy.

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