Cyber attacks on the rise in Middle East, Africa: Kaspersky
Posted On: Dec. 18, 2018 4:46 AM CSTResearch by Russia-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab Z.A.O. found that cyber malware attacks against financial service firms in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa grew 17% this year, ETHNews reported. Fabio Assolini, researcher at Kaspersky, said that illegal mining of cryptocurrencies has emerged as the main threat instead of ransomware attacks this year.