Lev Matveev, Chairman of SearchInform, has highlighted the cybersecurity risks faced by UAE businesses and advised them to invest in managed security services. Due to inadequate preparedness against cyber threats, around 50% of firms lack an information security department, leading to over 86% of UAE firms experiencing a successful cyber attack and 72% facing data loss due to insider breaches.

Ivanti VPN customers targeted via unrecognized RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)
A suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploited CVE-2025-22457, a previously unexploitable buffer overflow bug, to compromise devices running Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and