VMware opens Cairo offi
Digital Transformation
VMware has opened its first office in Cairo
in Egypt as it seeks to help the country
drive Digital Transformation across a range
of sectors, including government, education,
healthcare and industry. VMware views the
country as a key market in the Middle East
and North Africa region.
The new office will ser
regional market focus
services including sup
technical sales, projec
cloud consultancy. VM
more than 130 people
year of operating the
Banking malware targets
Research from Kaspersky into the financial
threat landscape has found Egypt to be
the most targeted country by cybercriminals.
In 2019, 773,943 users of Kaspersky
solutions were attacked by banking trojans.
Of those users, more than a third (35.1%)
were in the corporate sector.
Although the Middle Eastern corporate
sector was affected too, Egypt was found to
be the most targeted country and the worst
in terms of the share of affected corporate
users attacked by banking malware (43%).
Banking Trojans are one of the most
widespread tools for cybercriminals as they
focus on stealing money. Bankers usually
search for users’ credentials for e-payment
and online banking systems, hijacking onetime
passwords and then passing that data
to the attackers.
A third of these attacks in 2019 targeted
corporate users, an increase from the
figure (24–25%) that
consistent for the prev
According to experts,
is clear: attacks on the
not only provide acce
payment system acco
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