Malicious cyber-incidents started to record an upward trend, with activity concentrating in Baghdad, Erbil, Basra, and Mosul. Los Angeles-based cyber-threat intelligence firm IntelCrawler reports that the malicious activities within the Iraqi ISP sector have intensified in the last two months and that multiple new botnets have emerged. Attackers rely on dynamic DNS services to communicate with the infected machines. Based on the recent geo-political conflicts in the area, the company specula…