Kaspersky Lab has appointed Amir Kanaan as Managing Director for the META region. In his new role, which is effective as of the 1st of March 2018, Amir will continue to strategically promote the company’s vision of spreading cybersecurityRead More…

Kaspersky Lab researchers announced that they have uncovered a sophisticated threat used for cyber-espionage in the Middle East and Africa from at least 2012 until February 2018. Slingshot is a malware that attacks and infects victims through compromised routers and can run in kernel mode, giving it complete control over victims’Read More…

According to Kaspersky Lab’s study, cybersecurity remains largely untapped by women, accounting for only 11% of the total workforce in the industry. The report outlines some interesting facts on why cybersecurity continues to be a difficult career for women to break into. Women in cybersecurity face a harsh reality: oftenRead More…

Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Kingdom of Bahrain and Kaspersky Lab have initiated a a series of interactive cybersecurity roadshows in schools in Bahrain aimed at raising awareness about the threats that await children on the Internet and effective ways to respond to them. The roadshow will continue until the 13thRead More…

In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 percent were attempting to visit a financial-related website – 6 percentage points higher compared to data from 2016. This is the first time since recording phishing attemptsRead More…

Kaspersky Lab and Ingram Micro have announced an agreement to bring the latest Kaspersky Lab offerings on the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace in the Middle East region. Channel partners will now have access to a wide range of solutionsRead More…