Incidents in country:
4 incidents catalogued
Lazarus operators substituted the implementation contract during a routine Safe multisig transaction, draining ~$1.5 billion in ETH and staked-ETH derivatives from Bybit's Ethereum cold wallet — the largest single cryptocurrency theft in history.
The AvosLocker ransomware gang attacked the Dubai branch of NHS-affiliated Moorfields Eye Hospital, exfiltrating roughly 60 GB of patient and staff data including ID cards, insurance claims and internal records, then dumping it online.
Attackers accessed the systems of Dubai-based ride-hailing app Careem and stole the names, emails, phone numbers and trip histories of around 14 million riders and 558,000 drivers across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
A hacker calling himself Hacker Buba breached Sharjah-based InvestBank, demanded a $3 million ransom, and then leaked tens of thousands of customer records including credit card numbers, passports and account details when the bank refused to pay.