Mastercard Cyber Pulse Report reveals how strengthening digital resilience supports economic continuity

• In EEMEA, public, technology, and financial sectors account for 44% of cyberthreat activity, while application security and web encryption are emerging as key vulnerabilities.
• A broader mix of financially motivated and disruptive threat activities are responsible for 71% of cybercrime in the region

Dubai, UAE; 09 June 2026: Mastercard released its inaugural Cyber Pulse report, offering a comprehensive view of the evolving cyber threat landscape across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) over the last year.

The report combines regional threat intelligence from Mastercard’s Cyber Insights platform with organizational cyber health assessments from RiskRecon, a tool which allows companies to evaluate the level of security of their internet-facing assets. This also includes advanced threat intelligence from Recorded Future – acquired by Mastercard in December 2024 – which continuously analyzes data to identify emerging cyber threats and risk patterns.