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Mimecast Releases Its CyberGraph AI Email Security Tool
If a malicious email message is detected, CyberGraph will display a color-coded contextual warning banner to warn the user and encourage them to take the right action.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses around the Middle East to close their offices and abruptly transition to remote working, email phishing attacks have increased both in number and sophistication. This concerning new trend has put the topic of email security as a top priority for many businesses in the region.
According to Mimecast, a provider of cloud cybersecurity services for email, employees now click on three times as many malicious emails as they did before the term “social distancing” entered our collective lexicon.
Determined to better protect its customers against this growing threat, Mimecast has just launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tool for email security, called CyberGraph. The tool promises to keep email phishing attacks at bay using machine learning algorithms capable of detecting anomalous behaviors that could be indicative of a malicious email.
“CyberGraph leverages our AI and machine learning technologies to help keep employees one step ahead with real-time warnings, directly at the point of risk,” explains Josh Douglas, threat intelligence lead at Mimecast. “Phishing and impersonation attacks are getting more sophisticated, personalized, and harder to stop. If not prevented, these attacks can have devastating results for an enterprise organization. Security controls need to be constantly updated and improved to outsmart threat actors,” he added.
Whenever CyberGraph determines an email message to be malicious, it displays a color-coded contextual warning banner to warn the user and encourage them to take the right action, such as mark the email as spam.
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In addition to its ability to distinguish malicious email messages from legitimate ones, CyberGraph can also disarm trackers embedded in emails to keep unauthorized third parties from getting their hands on information that could be used to orchestrate highly targeted phishing attacks.
Like other cybersecurity solutions powered by machine learning algorithms, CyberGraph’s effectiveness will keep improving over time as more users adopt it to protect their inboxes.
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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon
Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.
Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.
The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc
— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026
“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.
Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.
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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.
Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.
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