SA has third-highest number of cybercrime victims in the world with about R2.2bn lost each year through fraudulent activities carried via the internet, according to professional services company Accenture....
The new year – and new decade – is underway, but before saying goodbye to 2019, we have one more monthly round-up to get to. December saw 90 disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, with 627,486,696 records being compromised. That’s about a third of the average monthly total, although the number of incidents has climbed steadily throughout the year....
In today’s computerized world, new risks emerge every hour of every day. Connecting to the Internet opens up the possibility of a hacker targeting your organization. Cybercrime is becoming big business and cyber risk a focus of organizations and governments globally....
At 13:30 on Saturday, 21 September, Cool Ideas’ networking team started receiving alerts. They were under attack and their DDoS mitigation had kicked in. Their network had been brought to its knees by a similar attack just ten days ago, so they watched closely to make sure their new defences held....
Researchers believe that nation-state actors are behind several spearphishing campaigns targeting U.S. utility companies with a newly-identified malware, which has the capabilities to view system data and reboot machines....
City Power confirmed on Twitter this morning that it has been hit by a ransomware attack which compromised its web server, databases, applications, and network. Ransomware encrypts everything it can reach from the victim’s machine and holds the information hostage, usually demanding a Bitcoin payment from the victim for the private key needed to decrypt the information....
PSA: Security researchers have discovered a new malware infecting more than 25 million Android devices. Dubbed “Agent Smith,” the code makes its way on to a device through sketchy apps and then disguises itself as a Google-related application....