The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has suffered a major ransomware cyberattack, resulting in critical IT systems going down, Engineering News has learned. This is not the first time the SABS IT infrastructure has been hacked, with previous incidents reported in 2023 and again in April this year.
The SABS confirmed the attack, telling Engineering News that it was merely the result of “enhancing the information security based on the recommendations from the previous attack”.
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Source: Engineering News
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