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QATAR | Page 16 SPORT | Page 1 Last chance for Al Rayyan to salvage INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2, 16 COMMENT 14, 15 Qatari home-based REGION 3 BUSINESS 1 – 12 pride, businesses ‘shine’ 20,885.94 10,110.84 47.88 ARAB WORLD 3, 4 CLASSIFIED 7, 8 -33.48 +119.17 +0.05 INTERNATIONAL 4 – 13 SPORTS 1 – 8 at Meerat Ramadan season -0.16% +1.19% +0.10% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10452 May 13, 2017 Sha’baan 17, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Massive In brief cyberattack QATAR | Visit President of Mali arrives in Doha President of the Republic of Mali hits dozens Ibrahim Boubacar Keita arrived in Doha last night to attend Doha Forum 2017, which will start tomorrow. He was welcomed upon arrival at Hamad International Airport by HE Minister of Culture of countries and Sports Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali, Qatar’s ambassador AFP several hospitals each, reported being in Mali Abdulrahman bin Ali al-Ajaj London targeted. al-Kubaisi, and Mali’s ambassador in “We are aware that a number of NHS Qatar Ahmed Tidiany Diakite. In this posed picture photograph, a woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a organisations have reported that they problem in its network, in London yesterday. Several British hospitals were hit by cyber attacks yesterday, the country’s health fast-moving wave of cyberat- have suff ered from a ransomware at- QATAR | Offi cial service said, forcing some to divert ambulances to other clinics and urge people not to try to contact their doctors. tacks swept the globe yesterday, tack. A apparently exploiting a fl aw ex- This is not targeted at the NHS, it’s Baluchistan bomb posed in documents leaked from the US an international attack and a number of attack condemned National Security Agency. countries and organisations have been The State of Qatar has strongly The attacks came in the form of ran- aff ected,” said Prime Minister Theresa condemned the suicide bombing somware, a technique used by hackers May. that took place in Pakistan’s Qatar faced 93,570 phishing that locks users’ fi les unless they pay Britain’s National Cyber Security southwestern Baluchistan province the attackers a designated sum in the Centre and its National Crime Agency yesterday, killing and injuring virtual currency Bitcoin. were looking into the UK incidents. dozens of people. In a statement The scope of the attacks was not Pictures posted on social media yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign attacks in 2017 fi rst quarter immediately clear, but some analysts showed screens of NHS computers with Aff airs reiterated Qatar’s firm reported that dozens of countries had images demanding payment of $300 position rejecting violence and been aff ected, with the malware linked (275 euros) in Bitcoin, saying: “Ooops, terrorism in all its forms and By Joseph Varghese have any protection on their mobiles to attacks on hospitals in Britain as well your fi les have been encrypted!” manifestations regardless of the Staff Reporter and they are prone to more such at- as the Spanish telecom giant Telefonica It demands payment in three days motives or reasons. It expressed tacks. Above all, people make use of the and the US delivery fi rm FedEx. or the price is doubled, and if none is Qatar’s condolences to the Pakistani Wi-Fi connections around them with- The US Department of Homeland received in seven days, the fi les will be government and people and to the atar had faced a total of 93,570 out knowing whether they are secure or Security’s computer emergency re- deleted, according to the screen mes- families of the victims. Page 11 phishing attacks in the fi rst not. This allows opportunities to cyber sponse team said it was aware of ran- sage. Qquarter of 2017, a cyber security criminals to access the user’s personal somware infections “in several coun- A hacking group called Shadow QATAR | Weather expert has revealed. details and plan their attacks accord- tries around the world.” Brokers released the malware in April These fi gures were disclosed by Fa- ingly,” explained Assolini. “We are now seeing more than claiming to have discovered the fl aw Light rain forecast bio Assolini, senior security researcher, According to the expert, cyber crimi- 75,000 detections in 99 countries,” Ja- from the NSA, Kaspersky said. across the country Kaspersky Lab at a cyber security event nals are now using a new form of phish- kub Kroustek of the security fi rm Avast Although Microsoft released a secu- Light rain along with a weak chance organised by Kaspersky Lab in Vienna, Fabio Assolini speaking at the event. ing attack called Smishing, using SMS said in a blog post around 2000 GMT. rity patch for the fl aw earlier this year, for the formation of thunderclouds Austria. service. They send SMS announcing Earlier, Kaspersky researcher Costin many systems have yet to be updated, have been forecast today also across Speaking to Gulf Times at the event, internet portals,” the cyber security ex- some promotions or other news using a Raiu cited 45,000 attacks in 74 coun- researchers said. Qatar, the Met department said. Light Assolini said: “In 2016 Kaspersky Lab pert explained. hyperlink to access the particular site. If tries, saying that the malware, a self- “Unlike most other attacks, this mal- rain was reported yesterday from products blocked more than 268,000 The orange group refers to the sec- the person clicks on the link, the cyber replicating “worm,” was spreading ware is spreading primarily by direct the central and southern parts of the phishing attacks targeting users in Qa- ond category of countries where phish- criminals can easily access all the infor- quickly. infection from machine to machine on country, according to a tweet from tar. In the fi rst quarter of this year, we ing attack is widely prevalent while the mation on the phone,” he highlighted. Forcepoint Security Labs said that local networks, rather than purely by e- the Qatar Meteorology Department. have observed that such attacks were red one refers to the fi rst category of The network devices such as the rout- “a major malicious e-mail campaign” mail,” Lance Cottrell, chief scientist at The maximum temperature is on the increase in the country and the countries that suff er most from such ers and modems are also used by the consisting of nearly 5mn e-mails per the US technology group Ntrepid. expected to be 41C today in Doha number as of March 31 is 93,570. Qatar attacks. hackers to access the data from a compu- hour was spreading the new ran- “The ransomware can spread with- and at Mesaieed, Wakrah and Al also had about 13,000 banking trojans Phishing is the fraudulent practice ter. “Such attacks take place on devices somware. out anyone opening an e-mail or click- Khor, followed by 39C at Abu Samra, (malware to attack banking transac- of sending e-mails pretending to be that are not confi gured properly. These The malware’s name is WCry, but ing on a link.” 38C at Dukhan and 34C at Ruwais. tions) infections per month of the fi rst from reputable companies to induce attacks are silent and remote exploiting analysts were also using variants such NHS Incident Director Anne Rains- The minimum temperature of 25C quarter of this year.” individuals to reveal personal informa- the vulnerabilities to change the DNS as WannaCry. berry urged the British public to “use is forecast at Dukhan, followed by “Qatar along with three other Gulf tion, such as passwords and credit card (Domain Name Servers) in the system Forcepoint said in a statement that the NHS wisely while we deal with this 26C at Al Khor and Ruwais, 27C at countries is in the orange category of numbers. which is enough for the attacker to con- the attack had “global scope”, aff ecting major incident which is still ongoing”. Abu Samra, Mesaieed and Wakrah, countries in phishing attacks in the “The phishing attack is also on the trol the whole system,” noted Assolini. organisations in Australia, Belgium, The sort of ransom demands seen on and 29C in Doha. Yesterday, the world. In 2016, about 47.48% of the increase over the smart phones as mo- He has cautioned everyone to keep France, Germany, Italy and Mexico. the NHS screens are not without prec- maximum temperature in Qatar was phishing attacks targeted fi nancial bile phones are a key target of the cy- their Internet-connected devices well- In the United States, FedEx acknowl- edent at medical facilities. 41C and the minimum, 24C. sector while over 24% targeted global ber hackers of late. Most people do not protected against all such attacks. edged it had been hit by malware and In February 2016, a Los Angeles was “implementing remediation steps hospital, the Hollywood Presbyterian AFRICA | Health as quickly as possible.” Medical Center, paid $17,000 in Bitcoin Man gets 15-year jail, QR500,000 fi ne for bid to smuggle drugs The UK’s state-run National Health to hackers who took control of its com- One dead in new Ebola Service declared a “major incident” af- puters for more than a week. outbreak in Congo A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced an carton as part of his luggage, with foodstuff contents of the carton. He claimed that one ter the attack, which forced some hos- “Ransomware becomes particularly At least one person has died from Indian traveller to 15 years in jail, a fi ne of and around 6kg of hashish.