UAE Cyber Security Council announces successful countering of ransomware attacks, identification of hackers

The UAE Cyber Security Council announced that the nationalist cybersecurity systems successfully thwarted malicious ransomware attacks targeting respective strategical sectors successful some nationalist and backstage entities. The attacks aimed to breach information and fastener integer systems.

The Council highlighted that exigency cybersecurity systems, successful collaboration with applicable authorities, detected and preemptively countered astir 200,000 regular cyberattacks. Additionally, they identified the hackers and the origins of the cyberattacks, addressing them done precocious extortion frameworks and cybersecurity policies.

Recent blase breach attempts were noted, galore leveraging artificial quality (AI) technologies—an emerging situation targeting integer infrastructure. The Council observed a increasing inclination successful AI-driven threats, including deepfake technologies, societal engineering, and enhanced malware specified arsenic ransomware.

The Council anticipates that accepted attacks, specified arsenic phishing and societal engineering, volition persist successful tandem with a important emergence successful precocious AI-powered cyberattacks. These emerging threats are expected to beryllium much analyzable and harder to observe without cutting-edge technologies.

The Council emphasised the request for each nationalist and backstage entities to comply with cybersecurity standards to safeguard against specified malicious attacks.

Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Chairman of the Cyber Security Council, reaffirmed the committedness of each nationalist task forces to fortifying the UAE integer abstraction and protecting captious infrastructure successful enactment with planetary champion practices. He assured that the UAE's precocious integer infrastructure is well-equipped to observe and mitigate cyber threats with precocious ratio and speed.

He called upon nationalist and backstage institutions and individuals to stay vigilant against imaginable cyberattacks, urging them to beryllium cautious of phishing attempts and fraudulent messages. Institutions and individuals were advised to debar disclosing idiosyncratic accusation done suspicious links and lone usage authoritative and unafraid connection channels.

The Council warned of the expanding availability of blase AI-powered tools successful the hands of transgression organisations and violent groups, which could pb to a surge successful precision-targeted attacks against unprepared entities.

The Council besides underlined the value of safeguarding idiosyncratic information and verifying the authenticity of email links to forestall falling unfortunate to cyberattacks.

Ransomware is simply a benignant of malicious bundle that infects physics devices, encrypting and locking their data. Access is lone restored upon outgo of a specified ransom, often done cryptocurrencies. Such attacks person important fiscal implications, costing institutions worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

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