Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 55 | Page 32

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 www.intelligentcio.com