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Latest corroborated incidents
Landmark Group investigates unauthorised access to Shukran loyalty member data
Dubai-based retailer Landmark Group says an unauthorised party accessed customer information held by its Shukran loyalty programme. The company says it contained the access, opened an investigation and informed the authorities. It has not said how many members are affected; members who received a text message from the …
Espionage group reaches a Kurdistan Region government cloud, researchers say
Dream Research Labs reports that a campaign it tracks as DarkBlinders compromised a government cloud environment in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, as well as a prominent person in Israel, in activity dated to August and October 2026. Lures imitated Kuwait's foreign ministry, the GCC secretariat and Kurdistan-themed cloud dom…
Hijacked content platform puts obscene video on a Giza highway billboard
On 29 October a digital billboard on the 26 July axis in Giza, towards Sheikh Zayed, showed pornographic clips. Egypt's Interior Ministry said the screen belongs to an advertising firm that streams its content through a foreign provider, and that the provider's platform was breached. The firm switched its screens off w…
Attackers claim to have leaked about 695,000 records from Morocco's Watiqa.ma civil-document platform (claimed by the attacker)
In mid-May 2026 a threat actor posted what it presented as a dump of about 695,000 records tied to Watiqa.ma, the online service Moroccans use to request civil-status documents such as birth certificates. Moroccan and regional outlets reported the claim; no official confirmation from the platform or Morocco's data prot…