Hackers are probing defences of Mideast banks for future attacks -Cybersecurity firm: Hackers are specifically targeting employees of banks in the region with infected emails to gather information about the banks’ network and accounts, according to US-based cybersecurity firm FireEye, Reuters reported on Monday. “A wave of emails containing malicious attachments [are] being sent to multiple banks in the Middle East region. The threat actors appear to be performing initial reconnaissance against would-be targets, and the attacks caught our attention since they were using unique scripts not commonly seen in crimeware campaigns,” the company said in a blog post on Monday. The firm noted that at least some of the banks appear to have been infected from the recent campaign.