Blog on Digital Marketing &amp; Social Media in Egypt

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Thursday, April 3, 2025

SEO Strategy & Website Audit Summary

Jake Ward published this very interested GIF image on SEO, website audit, website optimisation, keyword research, content production, backlink acquisition, and performance reporting:

Jack shared it on his LinkedIn profile that reads "Started an SEO agency in 2019. Making $20M/yr for our clients". You can always follow him here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakezward

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m.abdulmuttaleb [at] yahoo [dot] com

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Monday, March 10, 2025

United Media Services's ON TV Disables Downloading YouTube Channel Videos

The upload has not made this YouTube video available in your country

Amr Adib's famous daily talkshow Kol Youm (Before moving a few years ago to the Saudi giant MBC Group) videos on YouTube can't be downloaded if they were uploaded to his previous employer, ON TV channel, the channel that is owned by the influential United Media Services (UMS) group

I used to find out this fact when we tried to upload one of his videos to our 2019 blog post on social media algorithms and their bias by the tech giants according to the US Department of State agenda.

I just found out that this was the case for entire YouTube channel videos of ON TV (It has 8.62M subscribers as of now).

The above mentioned screen appears when visiting Zeemo.ai website which is a free YouTube downloader (among other paid and free services). Below is the homepage for Zeemo.ai website:

Once you click on YouTube video downloader, you will be redirected to this page where you can paste your YouTube video URL. Wait to see its processing starting before seeing the above mentioned message "The upload has not made this video available in your country"

Was this a temporary restriction due to Ramadan season where many content creators download the videos to reupload and reuse them for their own YouTube channels and Facebook pages, etc? Let us wait and see.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Digital Marketing Manager Salary in Cairo (January 2025)

Job title: Digital Marketing Manager

Job type: Full time, on-site

Company: PrimeX Capital

Salary Range: From EGP 30,000 to EGP 60,000

Company Description

PrimeX Capital is a leading player in the CFD markets, offering a user-friendly and equitable trading experience. With a focus on innovation, speed, and credibility, PrimeX Capital's leadership team brings extensive experience to the field. They prioritize deep ECN Liquidity, fast execution, and quick account opening, providing clients with access to a wide range of assets and advanced educational guides. PrimeX Capital holds regulatory approval from top financial authorities, ensuring a secure framework for investors and traders.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Digital Marketing Manager at PrimeX Capital in Cairo. The Digital Marketing Manager will oversee social media marketing, lead generation, marketing strategies, web analytics, and digital marketing initiatives to drive the company's online presence and customer engagement.

Qualifications:

Social Media Marketing and Lead Generation skills

Marketing and Web Analytics expertise

Digital Marketing knowledge

Experience with creating and implementing digital marketing campaigns

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities

Have experience in Forex Trading.

Bachelor's degree in marketing, Communications, or related field

Certifications in Digital Marketing or relevant areas are a plus

To apply on LinkedIn (Publishing date is January 2025):

m.abdulmuttaleb [at] yahoo [dot] com

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France is fully committed to hindering Hamas’s efforts

Friday, February 16, 2024

Digital Marketing Manager Salary in Dubai

Dubai-based recruiter Srividhya Raghavan Veer posted this on LinkedIn today:

Role - Digital Marketing Manager

Location - Dubai

Salary - AED 25,000 to 28,000 plus benefits

Oracle Eloqua, CRM experience is a MUST

Email CVs to srividhya@hirerightt.com

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

hamas France meeting online activities Digital Sovereignty

Joint communiqué issued by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty

5 December 2023

France is fully committed alongside its partners to hindering the efforts of Hamas, designated a terrorist group by the European Union.

In this context, France is working to dry up the group’s sources of funding. The national freeze adopted on 30 November 2023 against Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s leader in Gaza and one of those behind the barbaric attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023, also prohibits any individuals or legal entities from making economic resources available to him. Although Yahya Sinwar has no assets in France, this national designation is a necessary prerequisite for the adoption of an anti-terrorism freeze measure at European level.

France is also working to strengthen European sanctions against Hamas members./.

Published on 05/12/2023

France to host meeting on tackling Hamas financing, online activities

By John Irish

December 12, 20231:18 PM GMT+2

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Officials from more than 20 countries including Israel but no Arab states will convene in Paris on Wednesday to define a strategy on how to curb financing of Hamas and its activities online, three diplomats said.

Israel’s cyber defense chief tells CNN he’s concerned Iran could increase severity of its cyberattacks

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/06/politics/israel-cyber-defense-iran-concerns/index.html

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN

Updated 9:11 AM EST, Mon November 6, 2023

CNN

After suspected Iranian hackers claimed a string of recent attacks on Israeli security cameras, Israel’s cyber defense chief told CNN he is “very concerned” that Iran could escalate its long-running covert battle with Israel in cyberspace with more serious attacks on infrastructure as the war between Israel and Hamas shows no sign of ending.

“They [Iran] know that they can act there more freely [in cyberspace] than in the physical space,” said Gaby Portnoy, the head of the Israel National Cyber Directorate. “We are prepared for that as much as we can.”

Portnoy said there would be a “cost” to any Iranian escalation in cyberspace, implying that Israeli hackers could retaliate against Iran with their own operations. But Portnoy, who is in charge of cyber defense and not offense, said his goal is to keep cyberspace from becoming “another front” in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Iranian hacking groups have proven adept at crippling computer systems at companies in Israel, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. Israel has its own elite cyber operatives that are, alongside the US, widely suspected to have conducted a cyberattack on an Iranian nuclear facility in 2009. And Israeli covert cyber operations against Iran have continued in recent years.

In the four weeks since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, suspected Iranian hackers have claimed hacks of a slew of security cameras in Israel and posted an instructional video on how to make Molotov cocktails to “attack the Israeli and American embassies,” according to interviews with private cybersecurity experts who track the hackers and CNN’s review of the social media posts.

Analysts say the digital saber-rattling is another way for Iran to project power during the war, aside from rocket and drone attacks on Israeli forces conducted by Lebanese militia Hezbollah, and similar strikes by other Iranian proxies against US troops in Syria and Iraq.

Portnoy also alleged that hackers affiliated with Hezbollah have hacked private security cameras in Israel to try to track the movement of Israeli soldiers in recent weeks.

So far, suspected Iranian hackers appear to have had minimal impact on their publicly claimed targets in Israel in the last month. Their goal seems to be to spread narratives in the media of Israeli and US vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.

But the string of recent Iranian cyber activity has raised concerns among US and Israeli officials that Tehran could use its substantial hacking capabilities to hit Israeli and US interests while avoiding a direct kinetic confrontation with the Israelis. The US intelligence community believes – for now – that Iran and its proxies are calibrating their response to the Israel-Hamas war to avoid direct conflict with Israel or the US while still exacting costs on its adversaries, CNN has reported.

Data-wiping attacks blocked

A fresh reminder of the potential for escalation in cyberspace came Monday when US cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks said it had blocked attempts by Iranian hackers to launch data-wiping attacks on more than a dozen Israeli academic organizations and technology providers.

Hamas has its own cyber capabilities that in years past have been used to spy on Israel and Arab governments, according to security experts. But Portnoy said those hackers have been relatively quiet in the latest Israel-Hamas war (Israeli airstrikes have decimated internet infrastructure in Gaza.)

US officials say they have tightened an already close relationship with Israel in cyberspace since the Hamas assault by sharing intelligence on any cyber threats as soon as they emerge. FBI Director Christopher Wray is concerned about potential escalation in cyberspace.

“The cyber targeting of American interests and critical infrastructure that we already see conducted by Iran and non-state actors alike we can expect to get worse if the conflict expands, as will the threat of kinetic attacks,” Wray told a Senate panel Tuesday.

US officials “have not identified a change in the threat environment facing American organizations,” Eric Goldstein, a senior official at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in a statement to CNN, but “we remain on heightened alert.”

US officials’ concern is in part due to what they see as the reckless and unpredictable nature of Iranian cyber operations compared with other digital adversaries. The FBI has accused Iranian government-backed hackers of an attempted hack of Boston Children’s Hospital in 2021, which did not endanger patients but nonetheless alarmed US officials. Tehran denied the allegation.

In recent weeks, US officials have been preparing for a similar scenario in which Iranian hackers conduct a disruptive attack on US critical infrastructure, a senior US official told CNN, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

“There is a gap between their [cyber] capabilities and their rhetoric,” the official told CNN, referring to Iran-backed hackers. “But we know they are rather reckless and not savvy to do things in a tailored way.”

CNN made multiple attempts to reach the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations for this article but did not receive a response.

The maturation of Iran’s cyber program

Many of the recent hacking attempts against Israeli and US organizations in support of Hamas were claimed by self-described “hacktivist” groups that in reality appear to be Iranian fronts, experts at US cybersecurity firms Mandiant and CrowdStrike told CNN.

“Even the successful, real cyberattacks are probably not going to be about the actual attack,” John Hultquist, Mandiant’s chief analyst, told CNN. “It’s not about the practical effects. It’s about the psychological effects.”

Someone claiming affiliation with one such group, dubbed Soldiers of Solomon, emailed this CNN reporter on October 20 to promote their alleged hack of security cameras in a city in southern Israel.

The alleged hacker also asked for the contact information of other reporters because “it’s an emergency to let them know we are becoming viral.”

Portnoy told CNN that Israel believes that Soldiers of Solomon is backed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an assertion that multiple cybersecurity researchers said they agreed with but would not comment publicly on out of fear of retribution.

In the information war accompanying Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the online personas allow Iran to blend in with a slew of other pro-Palestine hackers, said Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of intelligence.

The Iranians can “just spin up a new persona, with new” tactics, techniques and procedures and “that way they don’t burn any of the [other cyber operations] that they were already doing,” Meyers told CNN.

While China and Russia often get more attention in US cyber policy circles, Iran has over the last decade steadily built a stable of hackers who often work as contractors for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s intelligence ministry, according to US officials and outside experts.

Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point last week exposed an alleged long-running Iranian cyber-espionage campaign that compromised governments, IT and financial firms across the Middle East, including in Israel.

While the hacking effort predated the latest war in Gaza, it could potentially provide Tehran with intelligence on how regional governments are responding to the war.

This campaign is “maybe the most sophisticated we have seen from Iran on a technological level,” Sergey Shykevich, threat intelligence group manager at Check Point, told CNN.

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