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‘Cyberattack’ hits Iran transport ministry and railway – Middle East Monitor

July 11, 2021/in Internet Security

The website of Iran’s transport ministry was taken down on Saturday by what state television said was a “cyber disruption”, a day after an apparent cyberattack on the state railway company, reported Reuters.

Computer systems of the staff of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development were the subject of the attack which resulted in the ministry’s portal and sub-portal sites becoming unavailable, the TV channel reported.

It didn’t give any indication of who it believed could have been behind the attack and did not say if any ransom demand had been made.

Train services had been disrupted on Friday, with hackers posting fake delay notices on station boards, state-affiliated news outlets reported. The government-run railway company said only the displays had been affected and that trains ran normally.

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Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi warned on Saturday of possible ransomware attacks unless vulnerabilities in computer systems were dealt with, Iranian news outlets reported.

In late 2020, Iran said hackers launched large-scale attacks on two of its government institutions, without giving details on the targets or the suspected perpetrators.

Iran says it is on high alert for online assaults, which it has blamed in the past on the United States and Israel. The United States and other Western powers meanwhile have accused Iran of trying to disrupt and break into their networks.

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This new hacking group has a nasty surprise for African, Middle East diplomats

June 14, 2021/in Internet Security

A recently-discovered advanced persistent threat (APT) group is targeting diplomats across Africa and the Middle East.

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Revealed on Thursday by ESET researchers, the state-sponsored group, dubbed BackdoorDiplomacy, has been linked to successful attacks against Ministries of Foreign Affairs in numerous African countries, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia — alongside a smaller subset of telecommunications firms in Africa and at least one charity outfit in the Middle East.

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BackdoorDiplomacy is thought to have been in operation since at least 2017. The cross-platform group targets both Linux and Windows systems and seems to prefer to exploit internet-facing, vulnerable devices as an initial attack vector.

If web servers or network management interfaces are found which have weak points, such as software vulnerabilities or poor file-upload security, the APT will strike. In one case observed by ESET, an F5 bug — CVE-2020-5902 — was used to deploy a Linux backdoor, whereas, in another, BackdoorDiplomacy adopted Microsoft Exchange server bugs to deploy China Chopper, a webshell.

Once they have obtained entry, the threat actors will scan the device for the purposes of lateral movement; install a custom backdoor, and deploy a range of tools to conduct surveillance and data theft.

The backdoor, dubbed Turian, is thought to be based on the Quarian backdoor — malware linked to attacks used against diplomatic targets in Syria and the US back in 2013.

The main implant is capable of harvesting and exfiltrating system data, taking screenshots, and also overwriting, moving/deleting, or stealing files.

Among the tools used is network tunnel software EarthWorm; Mimikatz, NetCat, and software developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and dumped by ShadowBrokers, such as EternalBlue, DoublePulsar, and EternalRocks.

VMProtect was used in most cases to try and obfuscate the group’s activities.

Diplomats may have to deal with sensitive information handed over through removable drives and storage. To widen the scope of its cyberespionage activities, BackdoorDiplomacy will scan for flash drives and will attempt to copy all files…

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Middle East and Africa Cyber Security Market Size Analysis By Growth, Emerging Trends and Future Opportunities

January 12, 2021/in Internet Security

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Jan 12, 2021 (AmericaNewsHour) —
Global Middle East and Africa Cyber Security Market to reach USD 66.5 billion by 2025.Global Middle East and Africa Cyber Security Market valued approximately USD 18.02 billion in 2016 is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 15.62% over the forecast period 2018-2025. Rapidly Increasing digitalization with the introduction of digital technologies for assembly, storage, analysis, and sharing of data have created need for security of this digital data, and is the major factor driving the growth of Middle East and African cyber security market. Hacking, cracking and other forms of cyber-mischief have made personal, commercial, financial and other digital data more vulnerable aiding to the requirement of cyber security and growth of the market. Increasing cyberattacks have forced administrations to improve their security measures, and to adopt cybersecurity services, this demand has boost the growth of the market.

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Cyber security is basically the safeguard of internet-connected devises and system (hardware, software and data), from cyberattacks. security involves cyber security and physical security – which are used by enterprises to protect against unauthorized access to data centers and other computerized systems, such as endpoints, networks, applications, and cloud data from threats, like malwares & ransomwares, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).

The regional analysis of Global Middle East and Africa Cyber Security Market is considered for the key regions such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Others. Saudi Arabia is the leading/significant region across the world in terms of market share. Whereas, owing to the countries such as United Arab Emirates, South Africa region is anticipated to exhibit higher growth rate / CAGR over the forecast period 2018-2025.
The objective of the study is to define market sizes of different…

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