UAE's national cyber defense system blocked coordinated campaign involving network infiltration, ransomware deployment and phishing operations designed to destabilize essential services.

The UAE Cyber Security Council announced Saturday that national cyber defenses successfully thwarted organized terrorist cyberattacks targeting the country's digital infrastructure and vital sectors in coordinated operations designed to destabilize the nation and disrupt essential services. The attacks marked a qualitative shift in terrorist tactics through exploitation of artificial intelligence technologies to develop sophisticated offensive tools.

The Council confirmed that attackers attempted network...