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The incidence of spyware attacks has shown a significant surge of over 20% within South Africa with regard to 2023. The majority of these reported attacks have been concentrated on governmental websites and systems, thereby potentially engendering substantial instability to Read More …
South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA), also known as the PoPI Act, is a comprehensive data protection legislation designed to safeguard the privacy and information of South African citizens. While Jacob Zuma assented to PoPIA in November 2013, Read More …
Earlier this year, Trend Micro researchers discovered a new cyberespionage campaign by a hacker group we named Earth Estries. Based on their observations, Earth Estries has been active since at least 2020. The researchers also found some overlaps between the Read More …
Recently Kaspersky pushed a report about an interesting and common component of the cybercrime malware set – SystemBC. And, in much the same vein as the 2021 Darkside Colonial Pipeline incident, they found a new SystemBC variant deployed to a Read More …
Cisco Talos has observed a threat actor deploying a previously unidentified botnet program Talos is calling “Horabot,” which delivers a known banking trojan and spam tool onto victim machines in a campaign that has been ongoing since at least November Read More …
Accelerating Digital Inclusion and Sustainable Transformation The 8th Edition of the Connected Banking Summit Southern Africa is set to take place on May 24, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, bringing together top executives, experts, and leaders from the banking and Read More …
Cyber security firm Kaspersky has warned that over a million company user accounts were compromised using a ‘data stealer’ in South Africa since 2021, and that the data may well have ended up on forums and markets on the dark Read More …
A new report from Mimecast has found that the US leads the way in the size of payouts following ransomware incidents. In the “State of Ransomware Readiness” study from Mimecast, researchers spoke with 742 cybersecurity professionals and found that 80% Read More …
The justice ministry of the South African government is working on restoring its operations after a recent ransomware attack encrypted all its systems, making all electronic services unavailable both internally and to the public. As a consequence of the attack, Read More …
Researchers have discovered a new backdoor employed by the Lazarus hacking group in targeted attacks against the freight industry. On Thursday, ESET said the new backdoor malware, dubbed Vyveva, was traced in an attack against a South African freight and Read More …
