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Batelco sees growth in Avaya OneCloud Business
OneCloud UCaaS and Avaya OneCloud CCaaS solutions at its own data centre .
Batelco , a digital solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain , has reported growth in subscriptions to Avaya OneCloud UCaaS and Avaya OneCloud CCaaS solutions that it offers as a cloud-based service through Batelco ’ s Bahrain data centre . The two companies announced this success story during GITEX Technology Week 2020 , marking one year since they signed an agreement to debut the joint services . Batelco offers both public and private cloud-based deployments of Avaya ’ s cloud solutions to customers and channel partners in Bahrain , by hosting Avaya
“ Organisations are modernising their ICT infrastructure by adopting cloudbased services . With Avaya , we saw the opportunity to partner with a company that provides world-class communication solutions on the cloud and is fully committed to offering these platforms as a subscription-based service ,” said Abderrahmane Mounir , General Manager , Enterprise , Batelco . “ Our joint offering with Avaya suits organisations of all sizes that want to deploy cloud-based industryleading solutions without the complexities and overheads of on-premise deployment .”
Fadi Hani , Vice President – Middle East , Africa and Turkey , Avaya , said : “ Avaya is proud to partner with leading telecoms companies and our success with Batelco shows the benefits of working with the leading solution providers in each market .”
Cybereason uncovers new malware abusing Facebook and Dropbox in ME
Cybereason , a provider in future-ready attack protection , has announced that it has identified an active espionage campaign employing three previously unidentified malware variants .
The newly discovered operation uses Facebook , Dropbox , Google Docs and Simplenote for command and control to directly target victims ’ computers for exfiltration of sensitive data . Cybereason attributes the espionage campaign to Molerats ( aka The Gaza
Cybergang ), an Arabic-speaking , politically motivated APT group that has operated in the Middle East since 2012 . Earlier this year , Cybereason researchers reported the discovery of the Spark and Pierogi backdoors that were assessed to be part of targeted attacks executed by Molerats against Palestinian officials .
This latest campaign leverages two previously unidentified backdoors dubbed SharpStage andDropBook , as well as a downloader dubbed MoleNet .
The campaign leverages phishing documents that include various themes related to current Middle Eastern events , including a reportedly clandestine meeting between His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman , Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia , the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
“ While it ’ s no surprise to see threat actors take advantage of politically charged events to fuel their phishing campaigns , it is concerning to see an increase in social media platforms being used for issuing command and control instructions and other legitimate cloud services being used for data exfiltration activities ,” said Lior Div , Cybereason Co-Founder and CEO .
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