This report reviews major cybersecurity events in January 2025 across the META region, highlighting a surge in real estate scams where fraudsters use online platforms to lure victims into paying for nonexistent properties. Group‑IB analysts identified and mitigated multiple phishing and scam campaigns, ensuring affected customers remained protected. Another notable development was a ransomware campaign described by Halcyon, in which the actor known as Codefinger used compromised AWS credentials to encrypt data stored in Amazon S3 buckets. These incidents reflect rising digital fraud and increasingly sophisticated cloud‑focused attacks across the region.

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