Posts Tagged ‘united arab emirates’

3 former US intel officers turned cyber mercenaries plead guilty: An insider threat case study

Sep

2021

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on 14 September a deferred prosecution agreement with two U.S. citizens and one former U.S. citizen who, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), transferred protected information (ITAR/AECA) to the UAE; assisted the UAE in exploiting Apple’s operating system; and conducted network operations that compromised U.S. entities. […]

Targeted Campaign Steals Credentials in Gulf States and Caribbean

Jul

2013

Last week, McAfee’s Foundstone Incident Response team got hold of a piece of malware that was sent out during a phishing campaign. The campaign targeted several companies and institutes in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and a couple of Caribbean islands.The executable that was sent with the email was called emiratesstatement.exe and the pictogram […]

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Key Figure in Police Ransomware Activity Nabbed

Feb

2013

Ransomware is a nasty scam that infiltrates your computer and tricks you into thinking that you’ve done something wrong. Police ransomware in particular informs users that they need to pay their local police a fine.We have written detailed reports about these attacks in the past, including multiple blog posts as part of our investigations into […]

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